I don't mean to come across as negative, but... how long were you waiting to get the opportunity to tell us all how fast you read? I like how you made sure to include the speed of the average reader so we can see exactly how much faster you are than everybody else. What makes this post brilliant, though, is that you did all this while commenting on how much faster the OP reads than you, thus covering up any boastfulness.
The problem here is that a defining characteristic of P2P is that availability is proportional to popularity. Something like a personal website would be very hard to start on a P2P network because it is not initially popular enough for it to be distributed around the network.
An interesting solution to this problem that most general P2P users haven't yet considered is the more structured P2P systems, like Pastry, CAN, Chord, etc. These systems are less flexible than Bittorrent, Gnutella, Kazaa, and them, but, by design, they guarantee that if content (like your website) is on the network, a query for that content WILL reach it. Of course, none of these are very popular yet. I hope they become so, though.
And if Labels found that these "premium" songs tended to get pirated in the P2Ps more, well, they always have the option to price them at the more reasonable lower tier.
Right, because those record companies have been so reasonable about reducing prices in the past.
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The world would be a much better place if more people did this.
I don't mean to come across as negative, but... how long were you waiting to get the opportunity to tell us all how fast you read? I like how you made sure to include the speed of the average reader so we can see exactly how much faster you are than everybody else. What makes this post brilliant, though, is that you did all this while commenting on how much faster the OP reads than you, thus covering up any boastfulness.
That is one nuanced post.
Short answer: no
Slightly longer answer: who cares?
The problem here is that a defining characteristic of P2P is that availability is proportional to popularity. Something like a personal website would be very hard to start on a P2P network because it is not initially popular enough for it to be distributed around the network.
An interesting solution to this problem that most general P2P users haven't yet considered is the more structured P2P systems, like Pastry, CAN, Chord, etc. These systems are less flexible than Bittorrent, Gnutella, Kazaa, and them, but, by design, they guarantee that if content (like your website) is on the network, a query for that content WILL reach it. Of course, none of these are very popular yet. I hope they become so, though.
I always hear it as red-headed stepchild.
Me too. As in, "Beat him like a red-headed stepchild." It's awful, but it's funny. And yes, I do have red hair.
Right, because staring at the back of the front seat for 6 hours doesn't at all rot your brain.
Good idea, but...
And if Labels found that these "premium" songs tended to get pirated in the P2Ps more, well, they always have the option to price them at the more reasonable lower tier.
Right, because those record companies have been so reasonable about reducing prices in the past.
You call it wasting money, I call it a Redundant Array of Expensive DVDs (RAEDVD).