Back on Nov 6th last year I predicted that Obama would make a big comittment to funding electric vehicles. Well, yesterday he announced that he was committing $2.6 Billion to help develop the next generation of plug in and hybrid vehicles. I thought he would spend more than the 2.6 B but there you go… In the mean time he has had to spend close to a Trillion on a wunch of bankers….. all of whom had to get paid their bonuses.

In the mean time will our predictions for P2P come true?

Every day that goes by sees us moving to a more interesting P2P environment. In a scenario such as the one that we are moving to right now – where there is depression in the US (that is right I am using the “D” word, not the “R” word) it is going to get very ugly in the corporate sector. When competition between industry sectors is for survival rather than just profitability, you can expect businesses to get down and get dirty in terms of their tactics.

Telcos and Content Companies are going to be squaring off to try to monetise the consumer in any way that they can.

The one thing that the content companies have going for them in this game is that they are the kings of propaganda. No one does it better than the movie studios…..

Having said that, my prediction is that within 18 months so much content will be shared in P2P networks that it will be impossible to stop. (as if that isnt the case already!)

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