what to share, what not to share. that is the question

[Freezmizer]

If the entertainment cartel controlled child/bestiality porn you can be assured that they would make an effort to curtail any piracy in those areas of errr.. entertainment.
I can see the ads now:Camera zooms in on young man in his moms basement "Hey man, I got busted downloading "Girl sux off horse" and they sued me... take my word on this, if you want to see "Deep throat doggy divas" then you should just pay for it. Piracy hurts everyone...think of those poor fuzzy critters who deserve to make a living"

Back on topic (I think), I would pay an extra charge or tax on top of my internet bill if it would mean risk free downloading as long as it was reasonable and untouched, drm free content. But lets face it, that will never happen because the **AAs will never relinquish control of their product. They will always insist that we are merely 'renting' media when we purchase it. Just look at Napster, ITunes, etc. Sure its legal, but you dont actually own anything, and what you 'rent' is DRM- filled low quality crap, not what I call a bargain.

I will continue to conduct my p2p business as usual.

[p2p-sharing-rules]

If the entertainment cartel controlled child/bestiality porn you can be assured that they would make an effort to curtail any piracy in those areas of errr.. entertainment.

they probably would if they can make money from it,they have no moroles.

I agree with you DRM free music is the way to go ,P2P DRM free for life,Down with the RIAA or who ever they go by in your country who want to dictate how we listen to are music.

[Rat]

I really think the p2p tax idea is a good one. I'm sure that far more people would sign up for this than for the music services that have appeared so far. That means it could also, very easily, be cheaper than these existing services and if the 'tax' income was sent to the **AA's they could actually stop moaning since they'd still be making a profit (let's face it, it only costs them a few cents to press a CD/DVD).

Perhaps we should start a campaign?

Going back to what Ecto said earlier about having to wait a hundred years or so for free access and the demise of p2p.... Well, I don't think p2p is actually ever going to go away. The nature of it will change for sure but as 'distributed computing' becomes more popular and as certain types of p2p clients such as FolderShare which continuosly update files in the shared folders of all connected clients (so all clients in the network have all the latest copies of all the files) develop further, I think what we're eventually going to see is .... a ubiquitous information network. All the info, all the files, all the knowledge and all the media that was ever digitised will be available everywhere, to everyone with the hardware needed to see it. This is what the Internet should become. Free and complete for all. Sounds like something you saw on Star Trek? I hope so. It is achievable.



And now, the rambling, Off-topic, extra information bit: CERN, the physics centre in Switzerland, are preparing to start their new collider (LHC - Large Hadron Collider) in 2007. In April of this year, as part of the testing of the computer infrastructure for the experiment, they sustained output of 600 MB per second of data which was streamed to 7 test sites in Europe and the US over the course of 10 days. The test was successful. To put that into perspective, the total amount of data transmitted (500 terabytes) would take an average domestic broadband connection about 250 years to download. Wireless networks recently got a boost (Siemens successfully tested throughput of 1 gigabit per second - average WiFi nets manage only 50 megabits) meaning that the huge outpouring of data that is now possible can be transmitted in acceptable timescales.... even where there are no cables.

[ecto135back]

Well so much for Quantum Leap all i wanted to do was legally re-live the eighties a little. was online for 27hrs. i look at my cpu this morning, online for 35hrs. what the hell?! i sure hope that these p2p programs come out with a great brand new kickass hack/update on em to solve this problem. as of now i dont know how p2p exists here, barely in my household anyways. like i said, all i wanted to do was give people a few laughs with what i have to share.

-Brad

[moongirl]

It is an extremely good idea Rat, that is the problem, too simple and far too logical

[nesman]

It's funny. As I was reading that post, "Star Trek" is what I had in mind.

[']['he']['ruth]

Hmmmm...P2P tax?

I think free porn sites have come together with paper towel companies. The better the porn, the hotter you get, more likely to jerk. Then, it has to go somewhere(paper towel). Paper Towel shares profit with porn sites. The more paper towel you buy, the better the porn. BUY PAPER TOWEL!

Something like that? Probably not, but damn I feel like i'm on drugs...

[threewing]

The more paper towel you buy, the better the porn. BUY PAPER TOWEL!

As a chemical garbage-worker I fully agree with this. Eventually it will show up in our loads of ''Offfice Disposals''

Don't really care about used paper towel, though...

[ecto135back]

well lately it doesnt look like i can share Anything! looks like im gonna have to have a chat with my ISP and find out what the @#$! is going on.

-Brad