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Tom9504:
To expand peer-to-peer from where it currently is, we have to overcome both the profit-hungry record companies and the investors, we have to find programmers and servers that we can use for free, and once we've done that, we have to overcome the smallmindedness of the public at large when it comes to as-yet undiscovered music - so many just think that 'undiscovered'=crap.
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An excellent post, Tom9504 and ditto on your conclusions!
That is exactly how it is. The media industry doesn't spare money or lawyers if their commercial interests are threatened by another commercial entity. Napster and mp3.com are good examples of this. Better remain totally outside the commercial zone and provide
everything that we need from among our own. It may take more time that way but then the commercial way does not really give us what we want. We are lucky if these hot p2p start-ups even bother to talk with us - not to talk about hearing what we have to say.
- tg
