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How to Save the Economy (Via TV) and Stop all this silly ACTA stuff.

By Tom Koltai

When I was four years old, my family constructed a house. I asked my father how the builders knew what went where. And he told me about the plans and showed me the blueprints. I was enthralled, here was a method to build something. Draw up a master plan, order the lumber, roofing iron, and [...]

The Financial Proof that Copyright has Failed Commercially.

By Tom Koltai

The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark.   For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA.   Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]

Koltai Musings or A Solitary Pigeon amongst the ACTA FatCats.

By Tom Koltai

Sometimes you can read a paragraph and skip right over important words. It is not till later that something in the brain clicks and says “Whoa”!   The other day I quoted a paragraph from wikileaks:   In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global [...]

Facebook the New P2P of the People

By Tom Koltai

When I first signed up for a Facebook page – about 2005, I did not quite “Grok” Facebook. Why would a user want to say what they were eating for breakfast? Better yet, who the hell would be interested?   I didn’t understand the sheep meme. Look at me – I can do this, you [...]

To Kerry with Love

By Tom Koltai

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 [...]

P2P With a Condom – The Emule Indexes

By Tom Koltai

Using the Search engine inside Emule will usually get hundreds of hits so it would appear that the Emule search index function is working as advertised. (Um, NOT.) Last month I identified that there were a lot of fake Lugundum servers whose role was to interdict your file requests with spam (fake files). In Australia [...]

Goodbye Foxtel.

By Tom Koltai

Located in the Antipodies (Australia), I have for a long time lamented the lack of timely local Television Programming of current US Sci-Fi Television shows.   Why?   Because Rupert Murdoch cut a deal for content in Australia that was so expensive that no-one else could afford to play.   As a result, to lower [...]

P2P -v- Akamai.

By Tom Koltai

In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia.   And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney.   All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]

The Real Value Of Time-Shifted Content

By Tom Koltai

Or Foxtel Continues Ignoring the Facts   A few weeks ago I pointed out that P2P pushback was no doubt partially caused by an over-abundance of adverts in Australian cable TV, To illustrate my hypothesis, I analysed a popular show – “Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles” series currently running on Foxtel. In the first [...]

P2P Users Lead the World in Enhancing the Hedonic Value of Broadcast Media

By Tom Koltai

No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his property, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor shall we go against him or send against him, unless by legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land.   What Law of the land says that you [...]