It seems that the election yesterday has resulted in close to a dead heat between the major parties – a hung parliament. This can be seen as a major problem in that it can stop legislation going through, or, as I like to think, a huge opportunity for good sense. And this is why: When [...]
Introduction Over the last several months a number of reports have been published on the impact of file sharing of popular music on Europe's macro economy. The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of arguments that have been made that are provably false or present data that is contrary to other so-called [...]
In 1981 I submitted my thesis for consideration. “Increasing the GDP by decreasing the cost of telecommunications to small business” (SME SOHO).Since that time, I have arguably been engaged in an experiment (to which I have devoted my life and entrepreneurial efforts, some successful and some not), to prove the conclusion in my paper.i.e.: By [...]
Every Government knows that to keep the sheep constituency happy – you need to feed them four hours of entertainment daily to “pay” them for the addition to the national coffers (Tax). The other day I found some DVD’s at a barrow stand in a shopping centre selling for $2.00 each. They were all [...]
Part 1. – P2P is threatening the US Monetary system It took humanity 25,000 years to create the “perfect financial system” and less than a hundred years to destroy it. Perfect? Well that depends on who you are talking too. For sometime, we at Perceptric have been saying that the world needs [...]
For some time, an Australian Company Perceptric Pty. Ltd., has been researching the damage to content provider revenues from illegal file sharing activities. Empirically we can find no conclusive evidence that file sharing damages the income stream for copyright owners, in fact, quite the reverse. We have found definitive statistics that show the [...]
The other day I blogged about the fact that P2P was big business. We discussed the value of the infrastructure purchased as a result of P2P activity, both at the carrier and consumer level. Today we will be anecdotally commencing an examination of the apparently growing causational relationship between higher education and file sharing [...]
It will come as a suprise to many readers, but there are those that still watch, free to air television. Those that do, tend to watch the programming on TV and use the advertising segments as convenient toilet or coffee breaks. But those of us that think that advertising is an inconvenient distraction from observing [...]
We have all heard the following mantra….. Don’t download movies using P2P. Om Mani Padme Hum….. Downloading is a crime Om Mani Padme Hum….. Stealing movies is a crime Om Mani Padme Hum……. Stealing Music is a crime omph…….. But is it? Or do P2P activities in Australia represent 5% of the country’s [...]
Thanks, Chris, for the introduction! As reader well know, there's a lot of noise in the P2P scene at present, especially following the recent Pirate Bay case in Sweden. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/20434http://google.com/trends?q=pirate+bayhttp://thepiratebay.org/blog.php The legal muscle is coming from the US, which is the largest producer of media content in the world. So how does this sector compare [...]