I think that the RIAA, MPAA, et al did not do much to improve the situation. I think that the major record labels and movie studios should have licensed FastTrack, Gnutella, BitTorrent, MP2P, OpenNap, and other sharing protocols from the very beginning.
If the major record labels and movie studios wanted any chance of reducing the amount of piracy they should change their strategy and use moves such as:
1) License P2P companies such as LimeWire, Blubster, BearShare, KaZaa, et al their content.
2) The content industry should implement a license mechanism for payment of content that will work on non-profit and hobbyist project P2P systems like Shareaza, KCEasy, the Pirate Bay, BitTorrent, and others. This could be a system in which one can pay royalties for the right to download from these systems legally or some type of collective license fund, artist tipping, or other system.
3) The RIAA consumer lawsuit campaign should be stopped ASAP. Additionally, RIAA should stop all efforts to block P2P ports in college dormitories. It is odvious that these two tactics do not work!
5:42 PM
I know there's a dearth of real-world data on piracy, but here's a dash: the Pirate Bay recently passed the 25M mark in terms of simultaneous peers. Here's the data itself, from TorrentFreak:
That's interesting, but it looks much more compelling graphically:
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So the rate of real pirates seen by The Pirate Bay has increased by 25x in just over 2 years. (As for how meaningful this data is, it's suggested that TPB tracks about 50% of all torrents.)
Anybody care to guess whether that 20:1 ratio of illegal to legal downloads ratio is going? Might it be more like 100:1 today? The growth of piracy over legal downloads is just staggering.
-david
posted by David Barrett at 1:44 PM on Nov 16, 2008
"ThePirateBay passes 25M simultaneous peers, leaves iTunes in dust"
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I think that the RIAA, MPAA, et al did not do much to improve the situation. I think that the major record labels and movie studios should have licensed FastTrack, Gnutella, BitTorrent, MP2P, OpenNap, and other sharing protocols from the very beginning.
If the major record labels and movie studios wanted any chance of reducing the amount of piracy they should change their strategy and use moves such as:
1) License P2P companies such as LimeWire, Blubster, BearShare, KaZaa, et al their content.
2) The content industry should implement a license mechanism for payment of content that will work on non-profit and hobbyist project P2P systems like Shareaza, KCEasy, the Pirate Bay, BitTorrent, and others. This could be a system in which one can pay royalties for the right to download from these systems legally or some type of collective license fund, artist tipping, or other system.
3) The RIAA consumer lawsuit campaign should be stopped ASAP. Additionally, RIAA should stop all efforts to block P2P ports in college dormitories. It is odvious that these two tactics do not work!
5:42 PM