Cartel Join The P2P Userbase

[GhostShip]

Oh what a suprise, after trying to destroy the p2p market for years the media leech industry are now slowly testing the water themselves.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726242,00.html

Today, P2P has an enormous user base using it for entirely legitimate purposes - and names from the entertainment industry such as Sky, NTL and Warner Brothers are rolling out services that rely solely on P2P technology.

Millions use the technology to make free internet-based phone calls through Skype. Academics use its grid-linking qualities to conduct scientific research. And on February 23 the technology received its highest endorsement of legitimacy yet. A group of policy makers from the European Information Technology Observatory and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) presented a study to lawmakers in Brussels calling P2P technology an important catalyst for job creation and economic growth; they advised governments to allow the proliferation of P2P applications.

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Group broke ranks with other studios by announcing the rollout this spring of a European TV and movie download service based on P2P technology developed by Arvato Systems, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, which owns the music giant BMG.

Expect more media conglomerates to focus on converting freeloaders into paying downloaders. Sky, working with P2P technology specialist Kontiki, is offering 200 movies and 1,000 sports highlight packages via download. The technology's ability to dice up large files enables relatively speedy downloads for viewers while minimising network bottlenecks for Sky - though it means that viewers' PCs will use their processing power and bandwidth to send parts of the files to other users, a fact some do not realise when they install the software (see http://tinyurl.COM1j02ah and http://tinyurl.com/z6uc6).

The Cartel are no different to religions in some respects, if you can destroy it or cannot destroy those behind it, then control it and subvert it to your needs.

[Lysander]

I don't understand your disgusted tone, isn't this what we've been waiting for the RIAA to do for the past ten years?

[GhostShip]

I dont understand your tone either.

I have not been waiting many years for the Cartels to sue everyone out of existence so they can control all distribution methods.
We should all welcome them into a fair and equal market-place but I for one will not be helping them bully their way to a monopoly of the various distribution sytems, the internet or its users, or aid them in ripping off artists and consumers.

I,m proud to say they wont be getting any of my cash this year, churning out the same old manufactured pop may please many people but I think if we all moved into actually seeking out independent talent and paying directly via paypal and other methods not only would the consumer gain but so would the artist and my ears.

Good music is good music, trying to control and monopolise its distribution is for those who are just out to milk all parties to their own benefit.
I get bored of repeating this "If its good we buy it ", but dont ask us to buy something the industry have artificially hyped to the pop charts, and dont penalise those who seek only to know the difference.

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i couldnt agree with Ghost more on this, this is about the way which these people corruptly control the market, the various methods used to gain chart position, the sometimes terrible product quaility, the scare/bullying tactics they use against people etc etc. Until they play fair, release quaility products at a sensible price, allow folks to make their own copies/backups, onto whatever format they like, etc etc, then they wont get a penny from me either. I for one was delighted to see Cinema figures down, cd sales down, i'm just hoping for negative figures from Sony now, i urge folks NOT to buy Sony products, they are among the worst offenders out there, they could do with a lesson in customer power.