The scholarly consensus is not unanimous, however. Michel notes that Oberholzer and Strumpf (2004) found no correlation between file-sharing and P2P use in 2002, and a more recent paper by a Harvard student found that file-sharing benefited more obscure artists.
The dominant impression gained from reading these studies is that finding accurate correlations between file-sharing and loss of revenue for the music industry is tremendously difficult. Michel points out, for instance, that his data would be better if it focused only on broadband users—but such data was not available for the time period he wanted. And then, of course, having a broadband connection is not the same as using it extensively, or even for using it at all for P2P. And of course it would be nice to know exactly how many copyrighted songs each particular household downloaded using such software, but this number too is almost impossible to get.
Despite the sophisticated regression analyses and economic modeling done by these authors, the initial data points are not ideal starting places for this sort of analysis. And academic papers are unlikely to sway those who have either made up their minds on the issue or simply want to justify behavior they think think should be legal.
In a few hours AllPeers is going to be released in the wild after 5 months of private testing. We did not invite all the testers during that phase but rest assured the remaining one will receive an email when the application is available.
We know some people have high expectations about this product so maybe it is time for me to put a few things straight:
1/ AllPeers is still a beta product so don’t expect it to be perfect (yet).
2/ Some features have not make it into this version so they will come out later; they include Chat, Comments, Tagging, support for external torrents.
3/ AllPeers is for sharing privately with friends and family; not for massively distributing files amongst strangers.
I’m very proud of the development team. They have created certainly what is the most ambitious Firefox extension to date (more than 200,000 lines of C++ and JavaScript) and the result is impressive, cool and useful!
I am using AllPeers everyday and have stopped attaching files to email (this is soooo 2005). I also love our ability to drag and share any picture off the web but my favorite feature has to be the ability to send a webpage to my friends just by drag and drop.
Finally before our young company moves to another phase of its life, I would like to personally thank all the private testers who gave us their time and some very valuable feedback to help us make AllPeers better and better. This is just the beginning…
Managing BitTorrent traffic has become an issue in the news lately. NetEqualizer, by APConnections, has been able to manage encrypted BitTorrent traffic for quite some time, and without any change in technology, without upgrades or without even requiring IT administrators to input protocols.
Further, the NetEqualizer’s ability to keep BitTorrent traffic in check will not be affected by encryption techniques neither today nor into the future.
Mike Morgan, Windows Server Administrator of Poplar Bluff Internet, serving Southern Missouri, says, “We have 13,000 subscribers and have found the NetEqualizer will handle all forms of BitTorrent (encrypted or otherwise) traffic quite nicely. In fact, we are replacing a more expensive tool from another company that required us to purchase upgrades at just about the same price as a fully supported new NetEqualizer.”
NetEqualizer’s customer base comprises a growing subset of IT administrators that don’t feel the need to identify types of traffic explicitly, as long as their impact is kept in check.
This is a key differentiator between APConnection’s product line, their customers, and the rest of the industry: Administrators that don’t want more control, but less. They want less work on their plate. NetEqualizer does it all automatically and leaves them time to administer their network with out monitoring for and inputting new protocols.
The RIAA is facing some major problems as one chap, amongst the legions the RIAA is suing as a matter of course, is fighting back with an awesome line of legal defence.
So far, the RIAA has gone after alleged P2P moguls by showing that an IP address was involved in downloading an illegal song, then going to the ISP that allocated that IP and finding out who it was assigned to.
The connection between the two has been enough to convince many of its targets to cough up ‘compensation’ to the RIAA in the thousands of dollars, and has warranted a trial of many others.
However, Paul Wilkes, the industry’s latest target, has hit the court he’s being sued in with something of a crucial point. Given that there is no evidence that he actually has the song on his computer, has any P2P software on his computer, or no actual evidence of anything, in fact - is this enough to even bring the lawsuit on?
Paul protests his innocence, saying that he doesn’t have the song or P2P software, thus effectively proving his own point.
He has filed for summary judgement in the case, which means that he believes that there is not enough evidence being presented by the RIAA for the case to even go to court formally. The court is now having to consider whether it should actually require the RIAA to have evidence beyond an IP address.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/
As far as Malaysia is concerned, the culprit that is causing the slowdown in international links to the Internet cloud may have been determined.
A group of ISP customers around Kuala Lumpur gathered together September 15 to formalize a TM Net User Group for the Klang valley.
Senior management staff, led by TM Net CEO Michael Lai, turned up in full force to lend support to the meeting and a dialogue of sorts became an opportune moment to address the issue of international links..
Of late, broadband customers have been complaining of severe latency and speed lethargy connecting to international links.
In response, TM Net showed some stats to illustrate that the Internet pipeline linking Malaysia to the global world now totalled 17Gbps, with major links hooked to the center of Internet world, the US. Read more »
In an unprecedented step, LimeWire’s owner has hit back at the RIAA by countersuing it for trying to control how music files are distributed.
The P2P company alleges that the recording industry’s US trade body’s objective is “to destroy any online music distribution service they did not own or control, or force such services to do business with them on exclusive and/or other anticompetitive terms so as to limit and ultimately control the distribution and pricing of digital music, all to the detriment of consumers”.
It goes on to call the RIAA’s suit part of a “modern conspiracy to destroy all innovations that content owners cannot control and that disrupts their historical business models”.
LimeWire’s developer has defended the company’s position by saying that the software will be used as much more than a music file sharing tool in the future; it will also distribute news stories, research papers, and more, all via the Gnutella P2P network.
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=4912
A federal judge ruled today that Streamcast, the distributor of the Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software, encouraged its users to commit copyright infringement by illegally sharing music, movies, and other copyrighted works.
The decision deals a major blow to one of only two P2P firms that had decided to fight back against the legal wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America in the wake of the June 2005 landmark US Supreme Court decision that found that Grokster and Morpheus could be held liable for copyright infringement on their networks. The other is LimeWire, which recently filed a countersuit against RIAA.
In a 60-page ruling, US District Judge Stephen Wilson granted the entertainment companies’ motion for summary judgment, concluding there was more than enough evidence of “massive infringement” on StreamCast’s network, despite the company’s arguments that it did not encourage computer users to violate copyright laws.
“In the record before the court, evidence of StreamCast’s unlawful intent is overwhelming,” Wilson wrote.
A StreamCast spokesman could not be reached for comment on the ruling.
YouTube pays nearly $1 million per month in bandwidth fees, a 7 figure deterrent to some interested in the business. A digital movie seller may only break even, as per-download bandwidth scrapes away at profit margins. There is a growing camp, though, that believes peer-to-peer (p2p) technology can address these barrier
The panel agreed that with video on the Net, bandwidth was the key issue, especially in regard to high definition video. Utilization of p2p may be a solution, but there still remains the question of how to monetize it.
Weiss mentioned YouTube’s colossal bandwidth bills before, like someone with new windows brags about their heating bill, noted that p2p dropped the costs of bandwidth at StreamCast to just $7,000 per month.
“For a $15 movie, the cost of downloading is only a buck or two,” added Cohen. “However, for the retailer that is pretty much your profit being blown away. For lower cost content like TV shows that sell for a lower price, it is only possible to deliver via peer to peer from a cost standpoint.”
Great, p2p is much cheaper. Now, how do we monetize it?
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has indirectly invested US$900,000 in Darling Digital Technology, the operator of Taiwan on-line music platform ezPeer+, for an 11.25% stake, according to CHT.
Starting operations in July of this year, ezPeer+ provides PC-based P2P (peer to peer) on-line music transfers as well as DRM (digital rights management)-compliant music for download onto portable multimedia devices such as MP3 players, Darling indicated, adding that P2P services cost NT$149 a month while the download service costs NT$249 a month. The platform currently has about 500,000 members, Darling noted.
CHT’s indirect investment through a subsidiary in ezPeer+ was motivated by the boost from on-line music services to its ADSL (HiNet) and 3G/3.5G business operations, according to industry sources. CHT’s HiNet subscriber accounts have been integrated with ezPeer+ member accounts, enabling HiNet subscribers to directly use ezPeer+ services, Darling indicated. The integration will be extended to CHT 3G subscribers, Darling added.
The parent company of popular file-sharing network eDonkey has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a copyright infringement case brought by six music labels, according to court documents filed this week.
The settlement follows a federal district court ruling earlier this week that dealt what appears to be final blow to MetaMachine’s peer-to-peer (P2P) client eDonkey; the eDonkey Web site has since been taken down.
A judge in New York’s southern district ruled Monday that eDonkey facilitated illegal activity by allowing users to swap copyrighted material over the eDonkey2000 network. Another MetaMachine creation, a decentralized P2P network called Overnet, was also ruled illegal.
The watermark technology makes slight changes to the data in sound files, such as a higher volume intensity in a tiny part of a song, that are undetectable by even the best-trained ears, according to Fraunhofer researchers. However, if unauthorised copies of a download turn up on, for example, P2P (peer-to-peer) filesharing networks, the watermark allows Akuma to identify the purchaser of a file and take action against them.
“Around 40 percent of the labels we offer are embedded with watermarks,” said Sascha Hottes, a managing director of H2 Media Factory, which launched Akuma. “This is the compromise we’ve reached with labels that are willing to release their titles in the MP3 format and not in Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio format with its DRM technology.”
As part of its service, Akuma monitors songs embedded with a watermark against illegal distribution on P2P services, according to Hottes. “We monitor P2P networks on a random basis,” he said.
Taiwan online music file-sharing network Kuro has agreed to shut down its file swapping service and pay undisclosed damages to settle a recording industry lawsuit, the industry group behind the conflict said.
The settlement comes a year after a separate case produced a landmark criminal conviction against executives at Kuro’s operators, Fashionow, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which filed the civil action, said in a statement released late on Thursday.
Under settlement of the civil case, Fashionow would stop distributing its peer-to-peer (P2P) swapping software immediately and will ensure closure of the copyright-infringing service by Oct. 15, the federation said.
A great deal of copyrighted material is available on file sharing networks.
Please be aware that many files are not legal to share or download. Please do not download LimeWire software if you intend to use it for illegal purposes.
LimeWireis the world’s fastest P2P file-sharing application, letting users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. The applications other features include dynamic querying, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface. LimeWirefeatures personalized spam blocker to get rid of junk results. Automatic updates will keep you sharing faster than ever with the latest version. You can search for Creative Commons and Weedshare licensed files, and publish your own creative works with Creative Commons licensing. LimeWire continues its guarantee of no adware or spyware.
Version 4.12.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.We are not responsible for the content of this Publisher’s Description. We encourage you to determine whether this product or your intended use is legal. We do not encourage or condone the use of any software in violation of applicable laws.
LimeWire 4.12.6is released! LimeWire 4.12.6is a major improvement to LimeWire, including many new and improved features to keep LimeWire safe, secure, and speedy. This release contains support for ’secure results’, which will prevent spammers from sending search results that could open a browser window. LimeWire 4.12.6also features the ability to enable content filtering. The core of LimeWire has been completely rewritten to use less memory, resources, and be overall nicer on your computer.
There’s a ton of minor improvements, many of which have been requested for years. Changes like:
Sorting the bitrate correctly.
A prettier LimeWire icon when using alt-tab.
Easier ways for people to change LimeWire’s language.
LimeWire PRO will always show a PRO splash, regardless of the theme.
A prettier setup wizard.
LimeWire respects the OSX dock & Windows taskbar when sizing itself.
Not displaying the ‘No Internet Connection’ dialog multiple times.
The ability to append (#) and use that as a default when downloading (contributed by MaTZ!).
A ‘Search More’ feature to get more results without erasing the current ones (contributed by Philip Schalm!).
Automatic configuration of the Windows firewall.
For the complete list of changes since 4.10.9, see LimeWire’s feature history page.
LimeWire also now ships with translations in over 20 languages, thanks to the hard work of everyone who has contributed a translation! LimeWire is translated into Bosnian, Danish, German, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portugeuse (Standard), Portugeuse (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Albanian, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), Greek, Finish, Indonesian, and Norwegian! You can help translate LimeWire to see LimeWire in your language.
And this isn’t it… Starting in the next beta series,LimeWirewill feature BitTorrent integration and a custom DHT. Keep a look out for what’s next!
Having been an Optimum customer for 5+ years, my recommendation is that nowadays you should NOT order Optimum Online. Why? Because it is EXTREMELY SLOW.
Once upon a time, I installed Azureus (bittorrent) and blazed uploads and downloads at 200 kB/s. Then one day everything stopped working. Azureus stopped working, and my web browser stopped working.
I thought it was my router, so I tried a new one. I tried a direct connection. I tried different bittorrent clients, and different web browsers. I came to dslreports and then I read about the 20 kB/s bandwidth throttling. That describes what I’m seeing now.
Downloading TV shows or short videos has quickly become a popular companion with music. Since the mainstream adoption of broadband, downloading marginally larger video files is no longer the time consuming inconvenience it once was.
The availability of TV shows online has grown with the arrival of mainstream P2P, YouTube, BitTorrent, Google Video, and similar avenues. Although the entertainment industry has impeded the number of TV shows and clips on YouTube, such influence is noticeably less on file-sharing networks. Denoting the explosive growth of video files, the Saturday Night Live clip, “The Chronic of Narnia”, gained tremendous popularity online. The fun was over on YouTube however, when NBC forced the video site to remove all traces of the clip.
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.
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