that they haven't got an alternative delivery vehicle yet. Closing down P2P networks and not providing legal alternatives will only make people write different P2P aplications and push this thing on a step.
It burns out in 2-4 years. Also if you watch anything with a logo in the corner eg. sports channels etc. after continual watching the logo will burn into the screen.
I like to think of plasmas like old CRTs that you really needed a screen saver for.
At first the internet was a big nerdy club and you _could_ fileshare etc but it was _so_ complex to do that only the really nerdy did, and i'm talking about people who never went outside a 2m radius of their 286, and so were unlikly to go and buy media anyway.
The problems only started coming along when your average user realised that they could fileshare really easily. Incredibly high prices for cds, dvds etc coupled with the fact that a good portion of the material available was (still is?) drivil only added fuel to the fire and people started to justify the downloading of music files - your average user still doesn't believe you can download a film, again IMHO!
Now a general change in habits of the western world (i may be a bit ignorant!) made it seem like people were buying less music and, while i belive thats not true, there are still conflicting reports on that subject. Add the relatively massive increase in P2P and the _corporation_ panicked, tried to shut down the software, sued the end users, etc but didn't stop and think.
Apple did. I'm not a huge fan of the apple computer but i respect what they do and full credit to them, they launched a service that people wanted - not wanted, were crying for, and how succesful has the ipod and itunes been? Now there are loads of ways of buying cheap music over the internet legaly. How long before we get imovies?
Whats my point? Well, i don't believe that you can shut down a network or 2 or 6 and the problem will go away. In the_modern_world the users are evolving much faster than the _corporation_ are. We want to have our cake and eat it and up untill a few years ago that wasn't possible but the technology exists to enable all the cake hording and scoffing that you can have but theres nobody making the cakes at the moment. The solution is to adapt the supply chain to give people what they want, no-one will use BT or any P2P if they have a viable legal alternative, won't they?
On one hand, if you had a fire and lost several hundreds of dollars worth of CDs, you have the same issues.
I'm not sure thats fair, I can't imagine that it's all that hard to phone you're local insurer up and say "i'd like to insure my CD/tape/MD/betamax/hi8/2" reel to reel/8track colection".
Not to say though that you couldn't insure a hard drive however there could be problems that the data ever existed if lost and also whether it had been copied off before a fatal partition wipe.
- they think consumers want a single device for everything - pda, audio, phone, watch, video player - even though integrated devices are unsuccessful in many other areas of life (tv/vcr, fridge/web browser, etc.)
I totaly agree! For one thing if your _1_ device is stolen or is droped in a pint of beer then, not only is your mp3 player gone, so is everything else!!
Also, my PDA which runs PPC2003, doesn't close apps once they're opened and as a result it slows down after a heavy days usage and every now and then needs a good old reboot meanwhile my phone, made by a nokia, looks inocently like its behaving but its actualy decided to crash and also needs a good reboot (power off/on) and yet people think its a good idea to combine them??
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that they haven't got an alternative delivery vehicle yet. Closing down P2P networks and not providing legal alternatives will only make people write different P2P aplications and push this thing on a step.
It burns out in 2-4 years. Also if you watch anything with a logo in the corner eg. sports channels etc. after continual watching the logo will burn into the screen.
I like to think of plasmas like old CRTs that you really needed a screen saver for.
...genuine Sorny when I see one!"
IMHO....
At first the internet was a big nerdy club and you _could_ fileshare etc but it was _so_ complex to do that only the really nerdy did, and i'm talking about people who never went outside a 2m radius of their 286, and so were unlikly to go and buy media anyway.
The problems only started coming along when your average user realised that they could fileshare really easily. Incredibly high prices for cds, dvds etc coupled with the fact that a good portion of the material available was (still is?) drivil only added fuel to the fire and people started to justify the downloading of music files - your average user still doesn't believe you can download a film, again IMHO!
Now a general change in habits of the western world (i may be a bit ignorant!) made it seem like people were buying less music and, while i belive thats not true, there are still conflicting reports on that subject. Add the relatively massive increase in P2P and the _corporation_ panicked, tried to shut down the software, sued the end users, etc but didn't stop and think.
Apple did. I'm not a huge fan of the apple computer but i respect what they do and full credit to them, they launched a service that people wanted - not wanted, were crying for, and how succesful has the ipod and itunes been? Now there are loads of ways of buying cheap music over the internet legaly. How long before we get imovies?
Whats my point? Well, i don't believe that you can shut down a network or 2 or 6 and the problem will go away. In the_modern_world the users are evolving much faster than the _corporation_ are. We want to have our cake and eat it and up untill a few years ago that wasn't possible but the technology exists to enable all the cake hording and scoffing that you can have but theres nobody making the cakes at the moment. The solution is to adapt the supply chain to give people what they want, no-one will use BT or any P2P if they have a viable legal alternative, won't they?
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On one hand, if you had a fire and lost several hundreds of dollars worth of CDs, you have the same issues.
I'm not sure thats fair, I can't imagine that it's all that hard to phone you're local insurer up and say "i'd like to insure my CD/tape/MD/betamax/hi8/2" reel to reel/8track colection".
Not to say though that you couldn't insure a hard drive however there could be problems that the data ever existed if lost and also whether it had been copied off before a fatal partition wipe.
- they think consumers want a single device for everything - pda, audio, phone, watch, video player - even though integrated devices are unsuccessful in many other areas of life (tv/vcr, fridge/web browser, etc.)
I totaly agree! For one thing if your _1_ device is stolen or is droped in a pint of beer then, not only is your mp3 player gone, so is everything else!!
Also, my PDA which runs PPC2003, doesn't close apps once they're opened and as a result it slows down after a heavy days usage and every now and then needs a good old reboot meanwhile my phone, made by a nokia, looks inocently like its behaving but its actualy decided to crash and also needs a good reboot (power off/on) and yet people think its a good idea to combine them??