interesting that this came up at the IETF technical plenary tonight, and there were definitely folks on the IAB advocating elimination of central control points in the long term view of the internet architecture. the specific topic that raised the issue was a debate on whether hierarchy in the routing architecture was a good idea, but the overall sentiment was that elimination of centralized tussle spaces was good. these are the folks that build the protocols...
music is easy to copy, live performances are not. it used to be that musicians made a living by performing (many still do). but to some there seems to be this sense that musicians have a right to earn money from copies of a single recording - 2hrs for a million dollars. certainly, the world is better due to the existence of music. but changing the rules is unlikely to eliminate music, just lengthen the tail.
artists give away copies to increase attendence at live performances. songwriters get paid when musicians perform their music. musicians get paid when they perform. nobody gets rich for selling a bunch of copies of something that is easy to copy. a copy of a song has become a commodity with a cost approaching 0, yet there is no way I can go down the street and play a show like (insert favorite band here)...
large numbers of musicians who love to perform get by with a decent living (maybe with a second job). really amazing musicians make some money. industry created pop-superstars fade away.
flatten the namespace (if necessary) and use a distributed directory (maybe DHT). link domain names to keys to ensure authority. i'm sure there are issues to be be resolved, but aren't folks already working on this? i know there is a chord based dns implementation out there, as well as DHT-based resolution in some of the HIP implementations.
anyone working on this stuff that can highlight the major open problems?
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interesting that this came up at the IETF technical plenary tonight, and there were definitely folks on the IAB advocating elimination of central control points in the long term view of the internet architecture. the specific topic that raised the issue was a debate on whether hierarchy in the routing architecture was a good idea, but the overall sentiment was that elimination of centralized tussle spaces was good. these are the folks that build the protocols...
music is easy to copy, live performances are not. it used to be that musicians made a living by performing (many still do). but to some there seems to be this sense that musicians have a right to earn money from copies of a single recording - 2hrs for a million dollars. certainly, the world is better due to the existence of music. but changing the rules is unlikely to eliminate music, just lengthen the tail.
artists give away copies to increase attendence at live performances. songwriters get paid when musicians perform their music. musicians get paid when they perform. nobody gets rich for selling a bunch of copies of something that is easy to copy. a copy of a song has become a commodity with a cost approaching 0, yet there is no way I can go down the street and play a show like (insert favorite band here)...
large numbers of musicians who love to perform get by with a decent living (maybe with a second job). really amazing musicians make some money. industry created pop-superstars fade away.
flatten the namespace (if necessary) and use a distributed directory (maybe DHT). link domain names to keys to ensure authority. i'm sure there are issues to be be resolved, but aren't folks already working on this? i know there is a chord based dns implementation out there, as well as DHT-based resolution in some of the HIP implementations.
anyone working on this stuff that can highlight the major open problems?