Peter Galbavy wrote:
My personal reasons for any downloading of audio, specifically,
in it's unavailability through retail channels. I keep picking
up references to older stuff that has been dumped by the pop-bods
many years ago and cannot be bought for love nor money. I may be
breaking some law, but in these cases I do not feel a moral
problem. If I could find the artist, in many cases I would even
pay them the equiv. of the CD price directly. Perhaps the new
business models that will have to be rolled out, either by the
existing companies or new, will allow for the full back catalogues
to be availale to those of us willing to pay - and then my minor
infractions can stop.
ACK, same here.
Back closer to topic, networks. P2P is a bandwidth spiral as we all
know - more broadband, more sharing. Will it ever slow down ? Not
in our career lifetimes I think. Whether legal or not, content is
going to be doing this merry-go-round for the forseeable future,
and the best we can hope for is to build and maintain the networks
while it happend.
While I generally agree, there is a phenomenon that we might want to
consider in some years: everyone having a local copy of every movie and
music they want to see or hear. For music, this is already possible:
some people have thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of files, and
more and more get a jumpstart in building their library by massive dumps
of buddies hard disks. For movies, terabyte disks are not far away and
it's only a matter of time.
In other words: as of today a large part of the bandwidth is allocated
to building everyone's collection of files. This might gradually change
to become bandwidth being used only for incremental updates as huge
local file libraries become common place.
Michel.