Peer-To-Peer News - The Week In Review - September 4th, '04

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Originally Posted by TankGirl

Mr. Demerjian's brief history of p2p is a good sum-up of developments so far. In retrospect, the closing of Napster was indeed the crucial mistake for the RIAA. They could have bought it with a fairly small sum of money (just enough to make the venture capitalists happy) and let it run, buying themselves time to figure out how to make a business out of it. That would have left them with a good control over the music consuming masses and a front seat on the technological evolution. Now it is too late; all they can do is to try to disturb the inevitable evolution with bullying and corruptive measures, with no real chances to regain the control they once had.

Thanks again for a great digest, Jack.

- tg

i liked this article as well..i nearly posted it..
luckily i checked here first..
this is probably due in next weeks wir but anyway another good one..

entertainment industry has been riding rough-shod over consumers ever since Napster - the original, not the ghastly Napster II travesty - showed up online.

Its appearance represented the first act in a commercial revolution which pits ordinary people against the huge corporate interests who've been in firm control ever since the first movie first recording cylinder were made.

'Consumers' got what they were given. They liked it or lumped it.

But that's not the case any more.

'Consumers' are 'customers' again and they're exercising their choices and hitherto blocked-off rights in ways never before available to them.
http://p2pnet.net/story/2345

edit:actually it has typos and is poorly formatted....