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What else is more popular on P2P Networks than the Top 50 Music Tracks?

By Tom Koltai

Well lots really.We have blogged about the academic nature of the most popular files. We have written about the sociological and commercial benefits produced by many of the downloads Today, we thought we would give an insight into what little Johnny is doing on his PC.Loops.Loops, filters and effects are required by budding young mixmaster [...]

P2P Users are Actually Changing The Music

By Tom Koltai

Music is changing. No longer is music just a few guys making noise and girl out front trying to sing.   The University of East Anglia in Norwich UK now offers some interesting  new degrees. Mathematics and Music, IT and Music, Computers and Music. (Download Pdf.)   But I’m getting ahead of myself.   When [...]

The Peering metrics of P2P

By Tom Koltai

We are noticing interesting anomalies between the ARIA charts and the P2P downloads.   This could be due to the old analogue methodology that purchased music is accounted for and subsequently reported on in the Aria physical media charts. i.e.: the results of weekly sales from 1100 record stores around Australia are collected on a [...]

Ecommerce in Australia Stuffed – Or is that about to Change

By Tom Koltai

A section of my Introduction to the  Responses to Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper By Thomas P. Koltai, on Behalf of Perceptric Pty. Ltd.   Submitted 10th of February – Before the Governments National FTTH rollout announcement and before the ACCC ruling against Telstra on last mile local loop. – A section of my [...]

The Pirate Bay Case – The Real Winners and Losers

By Tom Koltai

The Swedish High Court has sentenced four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), to jail.   On Twitter today Peter Sunde said: “Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media.” We got the news last night that we lost. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before [...]

Facebook –> Beyond social networks

By Chris Gilbey

Once you have a network – and Facebook has some 200,000,000 people in theirs, I was told yesterday – you can leverage it. Hillsong does the same thing very effectively with their congregation. Most of what happens in Facebook is pretty trivial, but some of it is quite interesting. Mainly because of the platform for [...]

Microchips that dispense drugs

By Richard McKinnon

Microchips is a company that makes devices that are implanted in a patients body. The device contain a combination of drugs, chemicals and sensors. In the body the devices release the drugs. The devices can be controlled actively, by preprogrammed microprocessors, wireless telemetry, or sensor feedback loops or  can be passive with layers or other combinations [...]