When I first purchased an iPod, I was very leery of letting iTunes decide how to organize my music folders. But I decided to "drink the Kool-Aid" and let iTunes have its way.
Now I'm very glad that I did. iTune's search features are so great that I just don't care where the files are stored. I'm never more than two or three clicks from anything in my huge music library. I've been relieved of the burden of manually managing my directories, and it feels fine.
I won't care where things physically end up on my hard disk as long as I can find them easily. With a 160GB hard drive, folder hierarchies are decidedly not the easy way. I would love an iTunes-style search across my whole computer.
That's a bit shortsighted. Just because the most popular content is of the adult variety, that doesn't mean it has no utility at all.
We are fast approaching a day when all manner of film and television content comes to us over the internet. Much of it already does. Yahoo and Google know this, and they aren't planning to let that market go uncontested.
The quest for anonymity is exactly what is killing one peer network after another. When BitTorrent finally gets killed, another will rise from its ashes to be killed again.
That's because people are committing crimes with the network.
Explicit removal of anonymity by providing authentication of the source of shared content provides several useful goals:
1. It eliminates piracy, allowing industry to encourage rather than condemn the network.
2. It virtually eliminates malicious downloads because they are instantly recognizable as such.
3. It allows users to trust the network to download content from a known provider. Software distributions, patches, free content, and, yes, possibly even paid-for movies and music.
I'm NOT saying I'm a total "play ball with the RIAA" prostitute. But it would be nice to have an open-source, universal, and robust file sharing network that wasn't constantly being hounded for all the illegal use it's been put to. A free and universal distribution system for data would be a great enabler for content providers large and small.
I'm an honest user in search of honest data. I'm will to pay sometimes. Let's eliminate mirror download sites and hard-to-trust data from the spectrum of internet annoyances.
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When I first purchased an iPod, I was very leery of letting iTunes decide how to organize my music folders. But I decided to "drink the Kool-Aid" and let iTunes have its way.
Now I'm very glad that I did. iTune's search features are so great that I just don't care where the files are stored. I'm never more than two or three clicks from anything in my huge music library. I've been relieved of the burden of manually managing my directories, and it feels fine.
I won't care where things physically end up on my hard disk as long as I can find them easily. With a 160GB hard drive, folder hierarchies are decidedly not the easy way. I would love an iTunes-style search across my whole computer.
We are fast approaching a day when all manner of film and television content comes to us over the internet. Much of it already does. Yahoo and Google know this, and they aren't planning to let that market go uncontested.
Now, Jon Stewart on Crossfire, anyone?
The quest for anonymity is exactly what is killing one peer network after another. When BitTorrent finally gets killed, another will rise from its ashes to be killed again.
That's because people are committing crimes with the network.
Explicit removal of anonymity by providing authentication of the source of shared content provides several useful goals:
1. It eliminates piracy, allowing industry to encourage rather than condemn the network.
2. It virtually eliminates malicious downloads because they are instantly recognizable as such.
3. It allows users to trust the network to download content from a known provider. Software distributions, patches, free content, and, yes, possibly even paid-for movies and music.
I'm NOT saying I'm a total "play ball with the RIAA" prostitute. But it would be nice to have an open-source, universal, and robust file sharing network that wasn't constantly being hounded for all the illegal use it's been put to. A free and universal distribution system for data would be a great enabler for content providers large and small.
I'm an honest user in search of honest data. I'm will to pay sometimes. Let's eliminate mirror download sites and hard-to-trust data from the spectrum of internet annoyances.
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