quoted 20 lines Looking more unlikely every day. p2p is not particularly robust as a>
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>Looking more unlikely every day. p2p is not particularly robust as a
>distribution mechanism; it just took one independent artist to shut down
>slsk for over a week with a simple complaint to their host. If hosts can't
>be shut down, p2ps can be poisoned or ISPs can be persuaded or obligated to
>block/filter traffic. It also sounds like maybe you haven't heard of schemes
>like DRM or Palladium. Basically, largely due to p2p, there is now a lot of
>pressure on hardware manufacturers to build copyright protection into the
>hardware itself. What this could mean in practise is that your hard drive,
>router, cpu, soundcard, headphones, sound system, tv etc could reject
>'unauthorised' material/programs or they might log to a remote database so
>that you can be charged per play (or prosecuted). You are also going to
>start to see appliance-type audio download/streaming devices which will be
>completely controlled environments - I can imagine if these reach critical
>mass, the labels will abandon physical product since selling below a certain
>threshold is just not worth it. This is not some sci-fi fantasy, these
>schemes are being specified right now.
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throwing my hat in the politcal ring, if this does come true, the price
of old 'inferior' technology would skyrocket. this won't stop people
either, as a whole electronic infrastructure (the one currently in
place) cannot be destroyed overnight. when you then attach a value to
it (privacy, and unmonitored data transmission) in a new economy,
suddenly old unprotected 40 Gb hard drives will double in value, even
while new 500 gig drives are sitting shelves cheap (besides, who's going
to be able to afford to fill up a 500 gig drive with purchased movies?
that's like 100 movies... might as well buy the actual dvds). What is
this going to do? slow the advancement of technology. the consumer
backlash would also kill off a lot of profit from the manufacturing
companies being pressured into this.
this future you describe was lobbied last year in a bill that was quckly
killed for those above reasons. why the bill? because the tech
industry is WAY more powerful (in terms of cold hard cash) than the
entertainment industry. i highly doubt the tech industry would ever
succumb entirely to these "pressures". unless, of course, it is
mandated by the government, and that didn't work.
PS... filesharing has done NOTHING but improve my purchased record
collection. for instance, I bought 4 records last week. the ONE record
I hadn't already downloaded earlier was the new Nightmares on Wax album,
which ended up being kinda poopy. long live filesharing.
-Mark
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