For some time, at Perceptric we have been saying that P2P is the new payola of old physical distribution system. Wherein, the music industry receives the benefit of P2P down-loaders as word of mouth promoters of music to their peers and siblings. In fact in The Peering metrics of P2P we said: “To [...]
Teeth are gnashing at Telstra HQ as PPC1 snakes its way across the Pacific ocean floor – edging closer and closer to its termination destiny with its Guam and PNG landing points. Suddenly the smaller ISP’s will have an alternative. Competition might be slow to start with Pipe Networks desiring to recoup outlays before [...]
Lately, readers may be noticing that I have been blogging about the CRTC hearings in Canada.The outcome of those hearings has Global ramifications regarding giving permission for “Big Brother” to look over our shoulder and attempting to profit from in various ways from invading our privacy.If the CRTC commissioners cave into ISP demands that all [...]
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 [...]
At most Universities in Australia today, when one looks around the cafeteria, study halls or lecture rooms, one notices a predominance of Chinese faces peering back intently. Australia is a multicultural society so this is good. We are merging through our education system with our largest trading partner. But does the average Australian [...]
Last Friday in a Swedish Court, the four pirates were awarded four years of jail time and financial damages against them (for running a Google search engine) of over three million dollars. In February three Thai CD Pirates were handed out jail sentences under a year each and fined $14,200 each for pressing 306 [...]
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 [...]
Peering is an agreement between two or more ISP’s to share traffic between each other to prevent it from using the internet for its transit. Chris Gilbey my business partner lives 120 kilometers down the road from where I live. You would think that when he and I send each other email it (the [...]
Hollywood is not the only casualty of P2P. In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be argued that pornography is as old [...]