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As things continue to progress it looks like the alphabet soup of copyright cops have a few short lived victories. The first is with Jammie Thomas. If you dont know she is , she is the single mother that has been charged and found guilty of sharing 24 songs or so using kazaa. She decided to fight and somehow the RIAA told enough lies during the trial to push over a million dollar fine on her. How that came about i will never know, but my guess is fear.

People sometimes are naive about filesharing like they would never do it, but in reality most of those people are just as guilty as the people who actually download the music. You might be saying how is that so…..Well i will tell you. The same people who judge others are the ones who dont get their hands dirty because they get a friend, co worker, cousin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or even some guy in a supermarket to burn a cd or dvd for them because we all know that going to the movies and spending 5.00 on a 32 oz , 4.00 on a hot dog, 3.50 on a box of candy, and buying a 7.00 ticket is not considered fun. Or how about a cd that cost 13.99 in the store…..Really? Most people dont even like the full CD that they buy from the store. This is where i applaud people like Apple and Amazon for giving us a choice on what we really want from a CD. With hard economic time and pockets getting tighter i suspect piracy to be on the rise. Is it right? Thats not for me to say, but if an artist wants to come to my town and have a concert I would be more and happy to pay for a ticket to go out and support him/her. The key to getting people to pay for music is (drum roll please)…………..MAKE GOOD MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! Of course everyone isnt going to like what an artist puts out, but if you believe in what you do, you will achieve a loyal following who will buy your CDs, and attend your concerts.

I set out to discuss the state of filesharing and yet i find myself giving advice to artist around the world. This is not really the directions i was headed for, but as a consumer these are things people need to hear in the entertainment industry. And truthfully its not the artist fault. The RIAA, IFPI, BREIN, and all the others are paid by the record companies themselves. Artist have come out against the action of attacking their fans because they dont want to lose them. The record companies are only worried about re couping their advances and promotional cost and dont care what fan they trample on to do it.  In this day and age an artist can do just fine by themselves because the means of distribution have changed. In the past an artist needed a big label to do their distribution, but now with the progression of technology you can reach worldwide in seconds.

Where is all this going? Well filesharing forces creativity to a new level. People who say that filesharing hinders and artist aren’t really looking close enough. You have directors and producers giving away their materials for free on torrent networks. You have artist that give away their music free on their sites. It all goes to show that once you establish yourself, the fans will flock from far and wide.

RIP Micheal Jackson, Billy Mayes, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahan, and anyone else i didnt mention.

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Sorry Ive been out for a while. I’ve immersed myself in the new p2p client for windows mobile that I’m creating. While it hasn’t been easy the progress has been steady. So ill keep you posted on progress and if anyone want to be in the beta once i get it stable enough, send me an email admin -at- p2ptechtime.com.

Whats going on in the world? Ferrah Fawcett, Micheal Jackson, Billy Mayes,  and Ed McMahan Died……. Maybe its something in the water or maybe its just their time to pass, but for Micheal Jackson his torrents have been getting hit hard. Everyone who either didn’t know or even care about who Micheal was is now singing thriller, i don’t know whether to be happy or tell everyone to shut up because they wont stop singing it. Anyway on to new news.

The pirate bay is being sold. As they say all good things have to come to an end. If you would have asked me did i see this coming i would have definitely said no. The Pirate Bay team seemed to believe in what they were doing every time they talked about it, but in the end i guess all of the legal trouble was just too much for them.  I’m not really sure how to feel about the new direction that they will be taking, but I’m glad i got away before things get out of hand. The new operators may start tracking their users and even turning them over to the alphabet soup of copyright police all over the planet. Anyway I’m running far way from the pirate bay. I’m not saying you should to, but I think you should take along hard look at whats happening in these next few months to decide if its the best thing for you.

I’m sure that in the coming months you will see new sites that will be fighting to take the place of the pirate bay, but your guess is as good as mine as who will fill the void.

The company who bought the pirate bay was Global Gaming Factory X, for 7.8 million dollars.

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While I’m sure me writing this will cause controversy and unease throughout the industry this is what i believe and I’m letting it be know.

Artist all around have been rebelling against the RIAA, IFPI, BREIN, and all the other letters because they have been embarking on this campaign in the name of the artist. In reality they are on this campaign for the labels not the artist. While the label thinks they know whats best for the artist they don’t because the actions of these Alphabet warriors leave fans not a fan of an artist because they have been attacked for downloading one of their songs.

In reality if you think about it, piracy helps artist by letting the world know who they are. If you can build up a fan base that will loyally listen to your music when you hold concerts and event you can count on those same fans to be there. Labels don’t care because unless they host a performance they wont get anything out of it. but the artist does and in a world where everything is digital the CD sales are not how artist are making money. Its the performances.

In this digital age the record companies are starting to become obsolete and using these organizations such as the RIAA to go after downloader is a way to try to stay relevant, but it wont matter if they don’t change what they are doing.

To Be Continued…

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For the past frew months it seem MPA, IFPI, RIAA, APSL,skdfjssdflkjaskdfj ,klsjlf, skdfj, and whoever else seems its in their best interest to let people know that they are trying to work with isps to stop filesharing.

Lets be real, this cant be done. An isp can try to take all the measures in the world to stop filesharing, but they cant do it. What can they do? ban a protocol? if so change it. can they stop computer to computer interaction, no because everynode on the internet is a computer. Can they ban certian ports? no because developers will utiilize the ports they have and it wont make a difference. What about monitoring? well thats what encryption is for and what about then with the various vpns and proxies around your ips will still not be able to monitor your traffic since you are tunneling it through another source. I guess it sucks to be copyright holders. Most of them have no case anyway since their material is garbage, but for the ones who make good music and music they are not complaining because they are doing just fine.

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I recently came across a site in which i think the idea of a p2p back-end would be very beneficial. The site is http://www.webloadtester.com/

Now the idea of a web load tester was a splendid one and to hit the site from various sources around the world and see what the reaction time would be is a good idea, but it saddens me to see that you cannot at least get a free trial. Im going to write the admin and see what all of the buzz is about and find out to see what kind of back-end they are using because im always about helping im prove a goo d idea.

Also Im working on a P2P Tech Time P2P App.  Im still in the planning stages but as i get more into it hopefully i can get a better timeline out to everyone. Also findthatstream.com gets updated daily so check it out.  Im working on so many projects its crazy but the life of a developer is a never ending one(especially if you the ideas wont stop coming).

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Well me personally I don’t think they did. Now i think they took the whole trial to be a shame in the first place, and i would have to until i realized i had a judge who really didnt care or know anything about the times.

I wonder how much the movie studios lined the judges pocket. A lot (maybe) but i think everyone deserves a fair trial. No matter what the charge, situation, or circumstances.

Its true that people have their beliefs but it is up to us as citizens of the world to elect officials who are up with the times and not ones who probably cant even understand how a file sharing app works. Maybe I’m just a dreamer for thinking this but i think if we all stand together we can make a change in how things are done.

One country at a time!

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It seems nothing ever changes. You have countries passing three strikes laws and some that dont. You have people who condone the use of p2p for personal use and other who dont. What kind of world would we live in if there wasnt always someone oppsoing something. I’ll tell you what kind, “A BORING ONE!”

On to other news It seems that a study was done and instead of interpeting the results the way i think they should be taken i think i have actually read an article that i finally agree with. So here it is.

P2P study: Music crackdown is bad for business

Music biz throwing away cash

By Andrew Orlowski

A study of P2P music exchanges to be revealed this week suggests that the ailing music business is shunning a lucrative lifeline by refusing to license the activity for money.

Entitled “The Long Tail of P2P”, the study by Will Page of performing rights society PRS For Music and Eric Garland of P2P research outfit Big Champagne will be aired at The Great Escape music convention tomorrow. It’s a follow-up to Page’s study last year which helped debunk the myth of the “Long Tail”. Page examined song purchases at a large online digital retail store, which showed that out of an inventory of 13 million songs, 10 million had never been downloaded, even once. It suggested that the idea proposed by WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson, who in 2004 urged that the future of business was digital retailers carrying larger inventories of slow-selling items was a Utopian fantasy.

The P2P networks are harder to quantify, but apparently show a similar pattern, where most of the action – and profit – is in the ‘head’. Each Top 100 CD on on PirateBay averaged 58,000 downloads a week, for example. Lady GaGa’s The Fame was downloaded 388,000 times in a week. Like its predecessor, the new study also finds that downloads follow a log-normal, rather a Pareto (or “power curve”) distribution as Anderson envisaged. The WiReD man had guessed the shape of the internet – and picked the wrong shape.

P2P swaps: where’s the action?

The gap between bestsellers and the rest is widening, Page and Garland conclude, a pattern also seen with movie and TV consumption too. The authors cite one knock-on effect for live music promoters, who say bands fourth of fifth on a bill are relatively worse off than they were ten years ago. So much for the internet as the great leveller: You literally got lost in the noise.

But why does popular taste follow this shape?

For Andrew Bud, who worked on last year’s study, the answer is simple:

“An obvious answer is that it’s through people chatting to each other and seeing the music talked about in the media. That’s what culture is. So the fact we’re seeing the log normal distribution here may point to the power of culture on people’s choices. Chris Anderson’s hypothesis of a Pareto power law would be much more about random, individual choices – people alone with their computers. So perhaps, this debate of ‘thick versus fat’ is really about the power of culture in determining demand”.

Page says that once the nature of the digital market is understood, we can build businesses that reward composers and songwriters. (Not something a concern for the Pirates).

FIN

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