Comments on: Five File-Sharing Predictions for 2009

By: Hossam

Hossam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:27:03 +0000

What about usenet?

By: easybutton

easybutton — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:07:14 +0000

Umm thats 40 gigaBITS not BYTES. b = bit and B = byte. For those of you who don't know 8 bits = 1 byte. Meaning your 6 Mbps connection is 750 KBps (kilobytes per second).

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:53:46 +0000

Sorry forgot the URL.. Check it out http://www.shazzle.comit does small group file sharing vs. the large bucket approach of most of the other file sharing programs

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:52:15 +0000

Im thinking there will be some crossover with the new software called Shazzle.

By: Mike Chelen

Mike Chelen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:31:30 +0000

There is no single perfect solution, the best possibility is that there are many options so that listeners can pick what is most convenient for them. Customers will be interested only if the overall value is good.

By: Mike Chelen

Mike Chelen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:27:46 +0000

There is already alot of exciting overlap between free music and P2P, that will continue to grow. Musicians can get listeners with a minimum of distribution costs, and we will some techniques like BitLet music streaming will be improved and become more popular.

By: Mike Chelen

Mike Chelen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:24:58 +0000

There are enough different public torrent sites that even if one is taken down it would not be catastrophic. Although Mininova and others do a great job and hopefully will never stop operation, advances like DHT and magnet links mean that bittorrent would continue happily even if every single public site were taken offline, which is even more unlikely :D

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By: ICE_30

ICE_30 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:15:29 +0000

I hope we get more good trackers out not only TPB and demonoid we need more.

By: ICE_30

ICE_30 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:14:25 +0000

Why such hatred campaign against mininova its a good indexing site.

By: ICE_30

ICE_30 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:14:14 +0000

Why such hatred campaign agains mininova its a good indexing site.

By: ICE_30

ICE_30 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:13:20 +0000

We have such type of moronic plans in India dude they give 2mbps lines and 1 GB cap and per MB they recharge .

By: ICE_30

ICE_30 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:11:30 +0000

Don't count socialism out my friend capitalism is already going down the drain with american bubble bursting.

By: We7Steve

We7Steve — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:13:51 +0000

The progress that has been made in 2008 is that music companies and new digital start-ups (like We7) are offering consumers legal alternatives with regard to free music, making free music easier and safer to stream and share and also monetising it so that artists and rights holders can get paid while consumers get free music – everybody's happy.

2009 is likely to see further development in these types of services and increased value for music lovers.

Steve Purdham
CEO – We7
http://www.we7.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:39:41 +0000

My prediction for 2009:

P8P will work. For all you slowpoke.jpgs:

Yes, peightpee, paid pee. Contrary to shit in bottles that is.

By: Reklrul

Reklrul — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:32:38 +0000

“It is the blindingly obvious solution (ie by far the best compromise on offer, and credit to Warner for proposing such a sensible scheme). I would very happily pay a monthly fee for unlimited legal access to all p2p files (provided the bulk of that fee went to the actual artists, not to their contractual overlords).”

Would I have to pay that fee even though I rarely download music? (I don’t, I’ve never been into music that much). What about the MPAA? Surely they’ll want a pirate movie tax. And the TV networks? The video game companies? The applications companies, like Norton and Adobe… How much of a monthly tax are you prepared to pay? $10? $20? $50?

My predictions for file sharing in 2009;

1. File sharing will get more expensive for many people as ISPs like AT&T start imposing ridiculously small usage caps and overage charges on their accounts.

2. The RIAA & MPAA will continue trying to re-write copyright laws to suit their own interests and stupid politicians will continue to help them (as long as they get paid).

3. The eDonkey network will continue to shrink as more and more servers get taken down.

By: John Might

John Might — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:28:37 +0000

Sounds like pretty good stuff to me dude!

privacy.de.tc

By: subexpression

subexpression — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:07:26 +0000

VOIP, VPN, apps like Citrix, and online gaming can use up considerable bandwidth, so a cap is improbable (at least where I am located).

As long as your packets are encrypted, your data is unreadable by your ISP. For all they know, you could be downloading old episodes of Gilligan's Island. They can, however, determine if you are using bit torrent, even if your headers are encrypted.

The main hurdle to leap over and reinventing tracking.
If all goes as predicted, and there's a clamp down on P2P, then the next gen will need to address how peers find both the files they're looking for and are able to locate one another.
DHT is great – but it might not last.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:54:03 +0000

"provided the bulk of that fee went to the actual artists, not to their contractual overlords"
Of course, they would never agree to that.

Moreover, if you take indie artists into account, who are not signed at any label at all and rather just trade their files through P2P, it would be very hard to pay many artists since one would need to track them down before one could send money to them. It would also be difficult to do the detailed investigations necessary in order to prove who was actually the one who created the music. What about uploading it to people who have not yet paid it? What about creating one's own derivative work from the music? And what about everything that is non-music?

It is an okay idea that is difficult to implement. Much better just to extend "fair use" to everything non-commercial. The original creators still have their rights to use their works commercially.

Roze