Mike makes the point that due to the increase in the intensity of compettion between the different p2p clients and networks that each network will have a limit to how big they can grow.
I have used Shareaza 1.7 beta and am very impressed with it's performance (it tells you when you are connected to a G1 hub or G2 hub so it's very easy to see the difference). I strongly believe that if Kazaa gets litigated out of existance that the best alternative for Kazaa users is Shareaza. Shareaza could very soon be king of the hill.
This case "is one in a series of skirmishes that will determine whether the information network the public enjoys five to 10 years from now is open or closed and to what extent different countries will have a role in controlling it," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
This almost sounds like a threat...
"all you naughty people start behaving yourselves or you'll ruin the internet for everyone else"
Well as I said before ppl like downlaoding movies and music, perhaps they will continue to do so in DRM licenced enviroment if their is no alternative.
Why would they want to use their own bandwidth ?, they might not have much of a choice if the application they use to access (download) and view the content is combined and the only option they have. Bear in mind that if DRM happens the way content produceers want it to it will be at least five years at the earliest, broadband should be more common so bandwidth won't be so much of an issue.
You seem to be completely missing the point that none of the business minded p2p companies are expecting to make money tomorrow, they are all gambling on the long term, with the distribution power of a dominating p2p network they could potentially become very profitable.
If family computers and living room entertainment systems converge you could replace a trip out to blockbuster with a download from p2p network (the download would of course have a licence that makes it unplayble after one viewing or a 24 hour period).
Sharman networks are the best example, they are already promoting DRM licenced music and video on the start up page in Kazaa.
I sincerely hope that DRM isn't implemented, all I am illustrating is one possible business model for a p2p network. You have to admit that p2p is an incredibly effiecient way of distributing data, if the whole licencing system is introduced and their is no threat of piracy (at least not on the scale their is today) then it becomes attractive to companies that would otherwise would have to foot the entire bill of hosting and bandwidth.
Didn't see the DMCA coming till it was too late did ya ?
Well it seems that judging by how popular p2p is that ppl like downloading movies and music. And the incentive to use it once DRM is implemented is the fact that DRM will make any alternative impossible (paticularly the current system of downloading for free) .
Why ?, cause once DRM is implemented a customer could buy a licence to watch a movie and instead of the company hosting the data themsleves the use a p2p network to distribute.
It's going to be dificult to compare shareza's performance to edonkey and fastrack because of the difference in size, especailly since at the moment shareza is the only gnutella client to use G2.
What are Shareza's long term business plans ?, are they going to take advantage of the network by selling their user's distributed proccesing power like sharman networks are planning to ?, or postion themselves as a legal media distribution system once DRM and Palladium are implemented ?.
Your right on the money, a lot of ppl (even ppl in the film industry) say they dislike digital projections because it doesn't look the same as film.
Basically people are used to a certain feel and look of projected film. What they are really talking about is the artifacts caused by dust and scratches which they don't obviously notice anymore because it's always been this way.
For me the difference is all too noticeable, especially when compared to the quality of a DVD (in the uk I have often seen films on dvd before they are released theatrically).
Of course these days we have Chris Morris so don't need pop acts.:-)
Good point, the reaction to his spoof special on peodophillia was way over the top. It's sad that we still live in such reactionary times, all the show did was exploit (read "took the piss out of") the hypocrisy in the modern media today. Another good example is Angus Deayton being fired from Have I Got News For You, a massive overreaction if you ask me, gonna be interesting to see who they get to host the show, won't be as good I bet.
He then goes on to say that taking drugs is like "having a cup of tea" first thing in the morning.
Actually if I remember rightly this did cause a bit of fuss, it may not have shocked you or me, but are we a good representative of the entire british soceity ?.
Point is it was prolly the same people complaining about the sex pistols that complained about noel's drug comments.
This also makes no sense. People that are in the know aren't likely to be spending their time trying to piss off microsoft. They would most likely be using their talent to make themselves shitloads of money in the industry.
Open source is very well and impressive but how big is it when compared to the entire number of users ?, or even just the users who are clued up about mod chips ?.
All Microsoft is worried about is people copying games, no big mystery here.
The thing they're worried about is part piracy, and part scared that people will find a way to write software (ie GAMES, not linux) for it without paying for their dev kit.
That doesn't make any sense, how many users are likely to be technically minded enough to write their own games ?, and how many users are interested in playing copied or imported games ?. Compare the two and it's obvious what the problem is.
Microsoft takes a royalty from every game legally sold, they want to protect this revenue stream (very important when you are selling the console at below cost). They probably don't even charge established game developers for the dev kits (tho I'm sure they make them sign an NDA).
What Palladium does is kind of the reverse: it lets the remote server check that you are running "kosher" software. A remote server could refuse to stream content to anything other than Windows Media Player, for example. Palladium would allow WMP to cryptographically prove to the remote server that it was running, and nobody could write a "fake" WMP that could fool the remote system.
I predict that Kazaa (and possibly other filesharing apps) will become "kosher software" and end up being paid by the RIAA and MPAA to ditribute their content (instead of being sued by them like they are now).
I would say that it has, I find it extremely difficult to find valid mp3's these days particularly on kazaa.
However I don't think this is right across the board, there are very few spoofed videos (just wait until the porn industry wakes up and realises how much money it's potentially losing on p2p). And Kazaa is certainly the worst client for fake files but others like edonkey seem to fare a lot better content wise.
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wheres the fastrack linux client ?
Mike makes the point that due to the increase in the intensity of compettion between the different p2p clients and networks that each network will have a limit to how big they can grow.
I have used Shareaza 1.7 beta and am very impressed with it's performance (it tells you when you are connected to a G1 hub or G2 hub so it's very easy to see the difference). I strongly believe that if Kazaa gets litigated out of existance that the best alternative for Kazaa users is Shareaza. Shareaza could very soon be king of the hill.
This case "is one in a series of skirmishes that will determine whether the information network the public enjoys five to 10 years from now is open or closed and to what extent different countries will have a role in controlling it," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
This almost sounds like a threat...
"all you naughty people start behaving yourselves or you'll ruin the internet for everyone else"
even final fantasy the spirits within ? (which I actually like, yeah take the piss if you like).
the sci fi channel doesn't get any money from the DVD's, their lack of merchandising rights is one of the reasons they are so willing to kill it.
because most of their users started using kazaa, which is essentially the same program as morpheus.
Well as I said before ppl like downlaoding movies and music, perhaps they will continue to do so in DRM licenced enviroment if their is no alternative.
Why would they want to use their own bandwidth ?, they might not have much of a choice if the application they use to access (download) and view the content is combined and the only option they have. Bear in mind that if DRM happens the way content produceers want it to it will be at least five years at the earliest, broadband should be more common so bandwidth won't be so much of an issue.
You seem to be completely missing the point that none of the business minded p2p companies are expecting to make money tomorrow, they are all gambling on the long term, with the distribution power of a dominating p2p network they could potentially become very profitable.
If family computers and living room entertainment systems converge you could replace a trip out to blockbuster with a download from p2p network (the download would of course have a licence that makes it unplayble after one viewing or a 24 hour period).
Sharman networks are the best example, they are already promoting DRM licenced music and video on the start up page in Kazaa.
I sincerely hope that DRM isn't implemented, all I am illustrating is one possible business model for a p2p network. You have to admit that p2p is an incredibly effiecient way of distributing data, if the whole licencing system is introduced and their is no threat of piracy (at least not on the scale their is today) then it becomes attractive to companies that would otherwise would have to foot the entire bill of hosting and bandwidth.
Didn't see the DMCA coming till it was too late did ya ?
Well it seems that judging by how popular p2p is that ppl like downloading movies and music. And the incentive to use it once DRM is implemented is the fact that DRM will make any alternative impossible (paticularly the current system of downloading for free) .
Why ?, cause once DRM is implemented a customer could buy a licence to watch a movie and instead of the company hosting the data themsleves the use a p2p network to distribute.
It's going to be dificult to compare shareza's performance to edonkey and fastrack because of the difference in size, especailly since at the moment shareza is the only gnutella client to use G2.
What are Shareza's long term business plans ?, are they going to take advantage of the network by selling their user's distributed proccesing power like sharman networks are planning to ?, or postion themselves as a legal media distribution system once DRM and Palladium are implemented ?.
Your right on the money, a lot of ppl (even ppl in the film industry) say they dislike digital projections because it doesn't look the same as film.
Basically people are used to a certain feel and look of projected film. What they are really talking about is the artifacts caused by dust and scratches which they don't obviously notice anymore because it's always been this way.
For me the difference is all too noticeable, especially when compared to the quality of a DVD (in the uk I have often seen films on dvd before they are released theatrically).
Of course these days we have Chris Morris so don't need pop acts. :-)
Good point, the reaction to his spoof special on peodophillia was way over the top. It's sad that we still live in such reactionary times, all the show did was exploit (read "took the piss out of") the hypocrisy in the modern media today. Another good example is Angus Deayton being fired from Have I Got News For You, a massive overreaction if you ask me, gonna be interesting to see who they get to host the show, won't be as good I bet.
He then goes on to say that taking drugs is like "having a cup of tea" first thing in the morning.
Actually if I remember rightly this did cause a bit of fuss, it may not have shocked you or me, but are we a good representative of the entire british soceity ?.
Point is it was prolly the same people complaining about the sex pistols that complained about noel's drug comments.
point is if you have game design talent it wouldn't be that hard to get hold of an official dev kit legally.
yeah but did the people on slashdot need any more convincing that releasing source code is a Good Thing (TM) ?.
This article basically explains what a mod is, briefly touching on counter strikes conception but most of it is jut bragging about it's success.
Not sure this was really worth posting on slashdot.
This also makes no sense. People that are in the know aren't likely to be spending their time trying to piss off microsoft. They would most likely be using their talent to make themselves shitloads of money in the industry.
Open source is very well and impressive but how big is it when compared to the entire number of users ?, or even just the users who are clued up about mod chips ?.
All Microsoft is worried about is people copying games, no big mystery here.
The thing they're worried about is part piracy, and part scared that people will find a way to write software (ie GAMES, not linux) for it without paying for their dev kit.
That doesn't make any sense, how many users are likely to be technically minded enough to write their own games ?, and how many users are interested in playing copied or imported games ?. Compare the two and it's obvious what the problem is.
Microsoft takes a royalty from every game legally sold, they want to protect this revenue stream (very important when you are selling the console at below cost). They probably don't even charge established game developers for the dev kits (tho I'm sure they make them sign an NDA).
What Palladium does is kind of the reverse: it lets the remote server check that you are running "kosher" software. A remote server could refuse to stream content to anything other than Windows Media Player, for example. Palladium would allow WMP to cryptographically prove to the remote server that it was running, and nobody could write a "fake" WMP that could fool the remote system.
I predict that Kazaa (and possibly other filesharing apps) will become "kosher software" and end up being paid by the RIAA and MPAA to ditribute their content (instead of being sued by them like they are now).
I would say that it has, I find it extremely difficult to find valid mp3's these days particularly on kazaa.
However I don't think this is right across the board, there are very few spoofed videos (just wait until the porn industry wakes up and realises how much money it's potentially losing on p2p). And Kazaa is certainly the worst client for fake files but others like edonkey seem to fare a lot better content wise.
they are promoting bands and videos on the search page but to play them you need to update your DRM software.
seems to me that kazaa could be trying to set it's self up as a media delivery system when palladium and all the copyright protection is implemented.
A decent list of mirrors can be found Here.
Season five has been cancelled, however the second half of season 4 is almost finished being shot and will be shwon on the scifi channel in january.
if it's cheaper to make then yeah