rrwood writes "The latest Cringely is out. In it, Bob give his take on P2P and Big Media and where it's all going. Nothing new there, but as usual, the interesting part is what SlashDotters will say here afterward."
Um, Napster didn't use nodes for searches.
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Anonymous Coward
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They kept every user's file listing on a central server(s).
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account_deleted
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Out of the loop
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Anonymous Coward
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Man are you ever out of it.
Kazza has about 3 million users on anytime of the day. more than the total napster users at it's peak. Way more.
Plus Winmx, Grokster, soulseek and about 20 others. And all of em have linux or Mac clients!
P2P will be impossible to stop in any real way sort of bandwith capping.
Critical Mass in peer networks
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One thing Cringley hints at is a coming boom in popularity and capability of truly decentralized peer networks. It is the fully and highly decentralized network architectures that the Microsoft group credits most with resilience against any kind of legal, technological or political attacks.
We are starting to see some of these technologies emerge, awaiting integration into flexible infrastructure that allows fast, easy and efficient distribution of data, content or otherwise, between peers on a local and global scale.
The end result will be a combination of a number of technologies seamlessly interoperating like:
It is nice to see the word get out: You cannot control the flow of digitial information in decentralized peer networks!
uh, WHAT planet do you say you're from?
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alizard
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Replace your FM transistor radio with a decent FM stereo tuner and get an outside antenna. You have a surprise coming.
With respect to 28Kbps MP3 files encoded by a retarded chimp on a 386 while smoking crack, I've heard plenty of those.
Where are you getting your download music where you've never heard such? We all want to/. those networks and servers.
The problem most of us have with FM radio is content, not audio quality. But if one is going to the trouble of looking for N'Sync or Backstreet Boys on Kazaa, one should start checking into tuner card specs NOW.
Ever heard of the DMCA? CBDTPA? Broadcast Working Group? Those items are part of what that money is going for.
You new here or something? Do a Google search on each of the above search terms and get informed. While flaming you would be more fun, you're more useful to the community if somebody hands you a clue. Go do something with it.
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They kept every user's file listing on a central server(s).
Comment removed based on user account deletion
Man are you ever out of it.
Kazza has about 3 million users on anytime of the day. more than the total napster users at it's peak. Way more.
Plus Winmx, Grokster, soulseek and about 20 others. And all of em have linux or Mac clients!
P2P will be impossible to stop in any real way sort of bandwith capping.
One thing Cringley hints at is a coming boom in popularity and capability of truly decentralized peer networks. It is the fully and highly decentralized network architectures that the Microsoft group credits most with resilience against any kind of legal, technological or political attacks.
... and many others.
We are starting to see some of these technologies emerge, awaiting integration into flexible infrastructure that allows fast, easy and efficient distribution of data, content or otherwise, between peers on a local and global scale.
The end result will be a combination of a number of technologies seamlessly interoperating like:
- distributed hash tables
- decentralized search
- swarming distribution
- wireless networks
It is nice to see the word get out: You cannot control the flow of digitial information in decentralized peer networks!
With respect to 28Kbps MP3 files encoded by a retarded chimp on a 386 while smoking crack, I've heard plenty of those.
Where are you getting your download music where you've never heard such? We all want to /. those networks and servers.
The problem most of us have with FM radio is content, not audio quality. But if one is going to the trouble of looking for N'Sync or Backstreet Boys on Kazaa, one should start checking into tuner card specs NOW.
Tech Public Policy stuff
Ever heard of the DMCA? CBDTPA? Broadcast Working Group? Those items are part of what that money is going for.
You new here or something? Do a Google search on each of the above search terms and get informed. While flaming you would be more fun, you're more useful to the community if somebody hands you a clue. Go do something with it.
Tech Public Policy stuff