Peer-To-Peer News - The Week In Review - Feb. 8th, '03

[SA_Dave]

Thanks Jack!

An excellent edition, yet again.

I really enjoyed the J.P. Barlow interview :

JPB: It wasn't bootlegging. We let people tape our concerts and distribute the tapes. And that became the first example I can think of viral marketing. The record companies certainly didn't know how to market us. So we became self-marketing through our tapes.

MJ: And that helped you economically?

JPB: No question. And it makes sense that it would. Because economic success in an information economy depends not on scarcity, but on familiarity. You can be the greatest songwriter in the history of song and if 10 people are the only ones who ever heard your songs, it doesn't matter.

I also liked reading CNET's special report on wireless adoption and the excellent comic strip!

This edition really speaks for itself though.