tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923005810906159036.post5406291859274741296..comments2024-03-27T12:49:05.975+00:00Comments on IP finance: After The Pirate Bay: what happens next?Anne Fairpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579190868405783459noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923005810906159036.post-9761651702104680382009-04-20T13:51:00.000+01:002009-04-20T13:51:00.000+01:00This piece from Professor Michael Carrier is well ...This piece from Professor Michael Carrier is well worth a read: http://blog.oup.com/2009/04/bittorrent/Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01123244020588707776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923005810906159036.post-13749119821839355222009-04-20T11:07:00.000+01:002009-04-20T11:07:00.000+01:00There does seem to be a progression in how access ...There does seem to be a progression in how access to digital content develops. First, content-providers hope the technology won't get good/easy enough to threaten them. <br /><br />Next, when that <EM>does</EM> happen, the content-providers decide the best approach is a combination of technical and legal measures to try to control people's use of that technology. <br /><br />Eventually, a point of capitulation is reached, where the content-providers realise they're just going to have to find new ways to make money in a changed environment. <br /><br />We've seen that final point reached with downloaded music, where the consumer's preference for the DRM-free MP3 format has finally won out. We're probably still a <A HREF="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/big-music-will-surrender-but-not-until-at-least-2011/" REL="nofollow">year or two away</A> from that point for streaming music. <br /><br />The movie and TV industries are firmly in the grip of stage two of the process. The book publishing industry is, alas, only just starting on what I dare say will be a decade-long process of denial and failed attempts at obstruction/control followed, eventually, by a world of DRM-free electronic books.John Haltonhttp://lawinthecloud.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923005810906159036.post-86119230778297877972009-04-19T07:42:00.000+01:002009-04-19T07:42:00.000+01:00Andrew,
Very thoughtful piece.
Assume you are in...Andrew,<br /><br />Very thoughtful piece.<br /><br />Assume you are in an MBA class, and you are told that two rounds of ads for eyeballs have largely failed, and the mode is back to paying for premium contents.What do you recommend operationally for the next 3-6 months?Neil Wilkofnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923005810906159036.post-4203402802051543472009-04-18T11:49:00.000+01:002009-04-18T11:49:00.000+01:00If you want to see the future of peer-to-peer, onl...If you want to see the future of peer-to-peer, online TV/Movie distribution you need to be able to read chinese (or find someone who does, to help you). Have a look at <A HREF="http://kankan.xunlei.com" REL="nofollow">KanKan Xunlei</A>. It's a website that acts as a slick catalogue of a raft of films, which can be watched in the browser with the click of a mouse. The films are downloaded via peer-to-peer technology, with ads every 20 minutes or so.<br /><br />This is the just the tip of what would be possible, if we did not have the amazingly vision-impaired big media companies holding us back in the west.<br /><br />If these companies wish persist in suppressing file-sharing, they need to be aware that the current BitTorrent technology was not designed to cloak which users were sharing what data. Continued judicial suppression will simply spur development of technology that gives file-shares plausible deniability, both to infrastructure operators and the actual file-sharers.Paul Jakmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923005810906159036.post-23135184067959665982009-04-18T11:44:00.000+01:002009-04-18T11:44:00.000+01:00I completely agree with Andrew.
Unfortunately it w...I completely agree with Andrew.<br />Unfortunately it will take a generation for those running the content industry to understand this.<br />Basically, until some of the children of the Net Generation find their way at the top of the corporate pyramid, the situation will not change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com