Future of P2P Posted by joseaugusto on 29-Dec-2004 - Day(s) left: 2356
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In 10 years, the best P2P tool for sharing music will be made by the RIAA and the best tool for sharing movies by the MPAA.
Sounds impossible? Keep reading…
By 2010 huge storage capacity devices and very high speed wireless connections will be available for everybody. Sharing an entire collection of music between friends has become as easy as giving a handshake or sending an email. However, the final stroke will be given by the advent of powerful anonymous sharing tools. MPAA and RIAA will finally give up.
However and in a clever last moment move, they will finally understand that in case you can’t beat them, you have to join in and so they finally announced their sharing tools. People ought to start using their tools, completely free of charge, since they would guaranteed the quality of the content.
The trick? They will need to know what people will be listening.
Why? Obvious; just like today, the most listened artists will get more money than the others. What money, you ask.
Well, the Government will be responsible for an amount of money - paid by us all as taxes -that would be given to the MPAA and RIAA. In turn, this entities will distribute this money between artists according to the amounts of downloads.
Music and Movies would be free and artists would get revenues in the correct proportion of the success of their content.
Seems you got it right. Congress considering tax on “all data communications”: Future is coming sooner that you predicted!
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000137030087/
Author: JoseAugusto
We're getting closer, Friday June 24, 2005: The AP reports: In the last few months, major record labels have signed licensing deals with companies working to field file-swapping services that would block unauthorized files from being traded online.' Most interesting is a service called Peer Impact, which 'can be used to find and purchase tracks from an initial catalog of a half-million songs from all the major labels.... After a user buys a song from Peer Impact, future buyers get it from that member -- or others who have gotten it in the meantime -- instead of from a central server. Users have to pay for each track they download, but sharing songs they've purchased from Peer Impact earns them credits they can spend on the service.
Author: cwes99_03
As for the giving points to the first person to download the song for a fee who then shares out to others doesn't seem like such a hard thing. Then I'll just invest in a terabyte server and have it auto download every piece of content they put out and the number of downloads that I get from my source will autofun all future downloads that I need. Yah right, sounds like another scheme to make their costs less while not reducing the cost to the consumer. Those two groups are federally protected con artists.
Author: Beddlin
February 03 2006: News.com is reporting the French Minister of Culture will advocate P2P as a flat-fee service. From the article: The draft law, which originally aimed to tackle online piracy, is backed by consumer groups in France but heavily opposed by such companies as Vivendi Universal, which owns Universal Music, the world's biggest record company, and a stake in film and TV company NBC Universal. French cinema and music trading associations together with rock stars such as Johnny Hallyday have spoken out against the law, arguing it would kill their work.
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