The MP3 Way: You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet

“…the Fulsome Five grind their teeth over Kazaa, Morpheus, LimeWire, iMesh and other apps for finding, downloading, playing and sharing digital audio. But thanks to Xnet, there’s a lot more than that happening online and in fact, Kazaa and Ko are no more than the tiny tip of a vast ice-berg. For every ‘known’ p2p site, there are literally hundreds more underground. Some vanish permanently after a day or two, but others only seem to vanish. In fact, they simply regularly (or I should say irregularly) change their names and/or locations, most of them keeping two or three steps ahead of the record labels’ CyberCops and informers…”

• Part I of this MusicDish Industry e-Journal commentary
• and Part II