P2P is far more Profitable than Legal Content Sales for the Industry – Pt 2

Part II In Part 1, I said that we considered that Hollywood would ignore the man in the street as irrelevent on the other side of the table at a file-sharing peace conference. That was our conclusion. That an industry body that represented the man in the street would fail in lobbying a solution. Anyone [...]

P2P is far more Profitable than Legal Content Sales for the Industry

Part 1   Some time ago, my colleague Chris Gilbey and I held a discussion about how a cease fire could be brokered between the content Industry and the File sharing community.   Chris explained to me that the nature of the problem was that there was no central organisation that the content industry could [...]

Obamas P2P Hit List

Tonights blog is short. In response to President Obama hiring 5 ex RIAA  lawyers and increasing the per infringement amount to $150,000 per, we give you – The List.   AppleJuice Halite DC++ Freenet iMesh Ares LimeWire dctc Acquisition Apollon KCEasy Localhost Dolda Connect Acqlite Grokster BitTorrent MLDonkey Elise Apollon Kazaa ABC MonoTorrent fulDC Cabos [...]

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 [...]

The Emule bus picks up New Sacrificial Lambs Everyday.

When we think of ubiquity, we think sunshine, ocean, sand, air and more recently, unfortunately pollution. If we personalize ubiquity, we think of people, clothes, food, cars, football/baseball (the lack of every night on Tele). If you were Bill Gates, you might think of the number of Microsoft Operating Systems that you have sold as [...]

The Train has Left the Station

The Music Industry’s future was pre-determined 300 years ago.   Louis XIV and his ultimate beheading resulting from the Revolution has curious parallels to today’s file sharing activity and the P2Pvolution.   The peasants rose in revolt against the high taxes and lack of bread. (And maybe because the early Ipods were self powered, but [...]

Down the YouTube?

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Down the YouTube?

Mar 23rd 2007 | SAN FRANCISCO
From Economist.com

The online-video site gets a heavyweight competitor

IT HAS been a terrible month for Google, the biggest search engine and the internet’s reigning superpower, and for its subsidiary, YouTube, the pioneer and precocious leader of online video. Users may love them, but the old-media companies, feeling increasingly exploited, loathe them, sue them, and gang up on them. And that matters, because neither Google nor YouTube, as quintessential “new-media” companies, own any of the content that they organise so well.

With the announcement on Thursday March 22nd of a new online-video venture between NBC Universal, the huge media unit of General Electric, …