An anecdotal statistical examination of music industry potential income with no file sharing. The music industry have managed to convince global Governments that they should have special protectionist legislation enacted. No-one has bothered to have a look at the logic behind their claims. Forget file sharing for a moment. The question should be, [...]
Unfortunately in our enlightened world, no-one likes to be criticized. This includes big business, Government and the next door neighbour. Thousands of Bloggers choose to write their opinions and interpretations of current events. Even more choose to hide behind pseudonyms, avatars and anonymous commentary. Why? Because we as a world are [...]
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 [...]
The world is shrinking. The tyranny of distance has all but disappeared. And, as the world shrinks, the population becomes denser yet decidedly more insular. Not surprisingly, they have learnt that it costs money to breathe fresh air (Tokyo Oxygen shops), drive anywhere (road tolls), go to the beach (parking). Every time they turn [...]
In 2000, the OECD announced their “Internet Basket” pricing survey results. Always-On Pricing To take into account the shift toward unmetered pricing the OECD has also compared the price of ‘always-on’ Internet access. The benchmark used to compare these offers is the average price for 150 hours Internet access per month, for OECD countries [...]
I was involved in email listserver discussion about peering restrictions in Australia recentely and one of the querants whom I’ll call SL asked me if the Swedish Peering model had a positive impact on the countries economy.My answer was complex but essentially a few weeks ago we rated 172 country’s around the world from poorest [...]
Very interesting post at Tom Barnett's blog about the role that women play in driving economic prosperity. Get these points about 'womenomics' The increase in female employment in the rich world has been the main driving force of growth in the past couple of decades.….. women have contributed more to global GDP than have either [...]
Article today in Business World notes a new OECD report that China will be the world's largest exporter by 2010. The report anticipates GDP sustained growth over this year and next of over 9% each year. This is a phenomenal story, particularly taken together with the increased energy prices that we are seeing now – [...]