Make that North American, because here at McMaster (Ontario, Canada) more than a third of our outbound bandwidth is eaten by file-sharing utilities. Sadly, we only have a 7-Mbit pipe here, and things generally crawl.. but that's another story.
I guess this could be construed as a consequence of training the youth to consume media. Just like people will flood movie theatres to see the next movie they'll also use any other means to get their media fix.
I find the Movie, Gaming, and Music communities' frustration over services such as Napster, Gnutella, $LatestTrendInFileSharing to be amusing in that the very masses that they 'hooked' onto their media are now eating their way into their profit margin in some sort of consumer feeding frenzy.
Napster, Gnutella are the holy grail of consumerism because in our culture the bottom line is the dollar, and what better deal can you get than a free one?
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I can see it now... 'Thank you for using the GNU/Linux OS!'
They've found a use for goat milk. ugh!
Make that North American, because here at McMaster (Ontario, Canada) more than a third of our outbound bandwidth is eaten by file-sharing utilities. Sadly, we only have a 7-Mbit pipe here, and things generally crawl.. but that's another story. I guess this could be construed as a consequence of training the youth to consume media. Just like people will flood movie theatres to see the next movie they'll also use any other means to get their media fix. I find the Movie, Gaming, and Music communities' frustration over services such as Napster, Gnutella, $LatestTrendInFileSharing to be amusing in that the very masses that they 'hooked' onto their media are now eating their way into their profit margin in some sort of consumer feeding frenzy. Napster, Gnutella are the holy grail of consumerism because in our culture the bottom line is the dollar, and what better deal can you get than a free one?
This gives a whole new meaning to 'fatal error'.
I've always just replied and requested that they resend their docs in RTF format. It has wide support and still maintains some level of formatting.