Apr 09
7
It takes a Big Man to Negotiate a Truce
My first “R” rated movie was “Little Big Man” which my dad
let me see when I was only 12 years old. His exact words to me were – “You’re
old enough now son.”
It was great movie – it covered a number of human themes:
the arrogance and bluster of Custer, the religious values of life and of course
the downtrodden and sorely under-estimated Indians;
“They’re only Indians”.
Had Custer elected to negotiate a truce at Little Big Horn
history today would not be marred with two hundred years of persecution against
the American indigenous Indian and today’s Americans would not be paying the
bill for those former actions.
In 2007, Paul Reskinoff, from Digital Music News in
conjunction with Big Champagne, started collecting statistics about file
sharing clients installed on individual computers. Over a period of a year,
they extracted data from 1,661,688 Internet users – the results are amazing….
|
P2P Client |
Sep-06 |
Jan-07 |
May-07 |
Sep-07 |
Network |
|
Limewire |
0.341 |
0.368 |
0.355 |
0.364 |
Gnutella |
|
uTorrent |
0.03 |
0.046 |
0.073 |
0.113 |
BitTorrent |
|
BitTorrent |
0.052 |
0.053 |
0.049 |
0.046 |
BitTorrent |
|
Ares |
0.035 |
0.038 |
0.043 |
0.046 |
Ares |
|
Azureus |
0.06 |
0.063 |
0.059 |
0.043 |
BitTorrent |
|
eMule |
0.038 |
0.038 |
0.043 |
0.04 |
eDonkey |
|
BitComet |
0.049 |
0.044 |
0.043 |
0.039 |
BiTorrent |
|
BearShare |
0.034 |
0.034 |
0.032 |
0.029 |
Gnutella |
|
BitLord |
0.024 |
0.027 |
0.028 |
0.026 |
BitTorrent |
|
KaZaa |
0.045 |
0.031 |
0.021 |
0.015 |
FastTrack |
|
BitTormado |
0.021 |
0.018 |
0.016 |
0.015 |
BitTorrent |
|
Frostwire |
0 |
0.004 |
0.01 |
0.012 |
Gnutella |
|
Pando |
0 |
0 |
0.008 |
0.009 |
Pando |
|
Total % |
73% |
76% |
78% |
80% |
|
Source: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/report/desktopq407
Over 79% of people have some file sharing software included
on their computer.
We extrapolated those figures and discovered that the world
will reach P2P ubiquitous file sharing installation by the end of 2011.
With the obvious exception of file sharing programs
installed on the PC’s of executives working in the content industry…
One wonders if the content industry have more brains than
Custer. I hope so.