If I remember right there was a program on the BBC where they some similar experiments. There was a triangular board placed standing with a single entry point at the top and multiple egress points at the base of the triangle. It had an arrangement of metallic pins palced regulary across the board. Balls were released one at a time from the entry point.
In control tests they showed that the balls went into egress points in a random manner. They then repeated the test with persons concentrating on the board and willing the balls to go towards one side or the other. Obviously the balls didn't go where they were willed to, but there was a skew in distribution from the usual random distributions in the control experiments.
Sorry. Relevance to the current discussion - How DRM can be effectively used with P2P.. DRM does not mean preventing people from copying songs, but means basically preventing people from breaking the rules under which the music has been sold to the user. Rules could be as strict as - "no copying allowed whatsoever" or as lenient as - "unilimited reproduction allowed all free of charge"..
Cards on the table: I agree music sharing is illegal.
However...
I have been exposed to so many more bands and music because of P2P. And I think that is the general opinion of most P2P users. I think P2P is a really great music "sampling" medium.
I suppose in the pre-P2P era (seems so long back!:)) this "sampling" was completely based on the stuff that the radio stations played or MTv or probably by word of mouth (na na naa. na. Remember that one?:-)) . Maybe music trading on P2P should be allowed but in a controlled manner - say the quality of the tracks is not as good as the CD stuff, or say each person who downloads the song can listen to it only say 10 times before the user must buy the CD, or maybe a really flexible payment option where the user pays a few cents every time the song is played. I think the chief reason why the P2P way is so darn addictive is cos' you have full control over the medium unlike radio or television.
Fastmail.fm has something similar. They set up a sub domain of the form yourname.fastmail.fm. Any mail sent to this sub-domain comes into your mailbox. The way this works is that you would give a mail-id like say foldername@yourname.fastmail.fm to potential spammer (website forms etc..) and all such email will come into a folder called "foldername" in your mailbox. Though this facility is not there with the basic service it is there with the one time payment service. Pretty neat stuff.
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If I remember right there was a program on the BBC where they some similar experiments. There was a triangular board placed standing with a single entry point at the top and multiple egress points at the base of the triangle. It had an arrangement of metallic pins palced regulary across the board. Balls were released one at a time from the entry point.
In control tests they showed that the balls went into egress points in a random manner. They then repeated the test with persons concentrating on the board and willing the balls to go towards one side or the other. Obviously the balls didn't go where they were willed to, but there was a skew in distribution from the usual random distributions in the control experiments.
Sorry. Relevance to the current discussion - How DRM can be effectively used with P2P.. DRM does not mean preventing people from copying songs, but means basically preventing people from breaking the rules under which the music has been sold to the user. Rules could be as strict as - "no copying allowed whatsoever" or as lenient as - "unilimited reproduction allowed all free of charge"..
Cards on the table: I agree music sharing is illegal. :)) this "sampling" was completely based on the stuff that the radio stations played or MTv or probably by word of mouth (na na naa. na. Remember that one? :-)) . Maybe music trading on P2P should be allowed but in a controlled manner - say the quality of the tracks is not as good as the CD stuff, or say each person who downloads the song can listen to it only say 10 times before the user must buy the CD, or maybe a really flexible payment option where the user pays a few cents every time the song is played. I think the chief reason why the P2P way is so darn addictive is cos' you have full control over the medium unlike radio or television.
However...
I have been exposed to so many more bands and music because of P2P. And I think that is the general opinion of most P2P users. I think P2P is a really great music "sampling" medium. I suppose in the pre-P2P era (seems so long back!
Fastmail.fm has something similar. They set up a sub domain of the form yourname.fastmail.fm. Any mail sent to this sub-domain comes into your mailbox. The way this works is that you would give a mail-id like say foldername@yourname.fastmail.fm to potential spammer (website forms etc..) and all such email will come into a folder called "foldername" in your mailbox.
Though this facility is not there with the basic service it is there with the one time payment service. Pretty neat stuff.