RSSFile Swappers Moving Away From P2P
By Nate Mook | Published March 25, 2005, 3:10 PM
A recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows file swappers are increasingly moving away from peer-to-peer networks to swap music and movies. 48 percent of downloaders have used sources such as someone else's MP3 player, e-mail, instant messaging and Web logs to trade files.
The survey, which involved 1,421 adult Internet users and was conducted earlier this year, also found that the number of music downloaders that have tried paid services such as iTunes has jumped from 24 percent to 43 percent. Pew Internet additionally reports that 53 percent of Internet users believe P2P networks should be held responsible for illicit file sharing. Only 18 percent believe users are culpable.
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|[1] - still the most reliable and active mode of file transfer and sharing.... File Transfer Protocol! {FTP for the clooless lamers out there}
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|ah yes...fxp
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|different concept. ftp is remote site to your home, fxp is remote site to remote site. in fxp the site to site can be site to you or site to another remote site
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|duh... if u want to contibute to the scene you'll be scanning and tagging and FXPing.. not just leaching off pre-filled ftps .... next time i need a dictionary ill ask for your opinion :p
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|no need to get mad
I said ftp and you illiterate as you may be thought I said fxp. I was merely pointing out how moronic youir post was in that you thought ftp and fxp are one in the same, they are not. no go back and ask for another 100 IQ points so you might have a chance in an intellectual battle... that or go back to your 3rd grade remedial education class
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|Pew is smoking crack or something. If anyone moved anywhere it was probably Mirc
why P2P when you have a host in a shell? Just point and click or strike and paste.
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|which president of what country once said: yea...I smoked pot, but did'nt inhale ?...p2p is not to be stopped by some clowneske "survey", why not ask 240.000.000.000 chinese, indian, european and other world citizens that do not support bill gates tactiques ? it is unhealthy and insane for one person to have that much money and too many to have so little computing pleasure...pew...or should it be phew.....?
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|I think you have overstated your population figures by about 234 Billion.
See:
http://search.msn.com/re...world%3F&FORM=SMCRT
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|File Swappers Moving Away From P2P
By Nate Mook, - Dude, April fools day is the first of April. You're a week early. Nice try.....
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|that makes my day lol was this poll cunducted on mtv's website? p2p is here to stay thier just pissed that the radar detecter came before the radar gun. Doh! but I do agree with all the other post, I think at one time I seen a pie chart that showed where all the money went when you baught a cd, it was funny.
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|Kazaa Lite 2.7 anyone? It has a FAKE FILE BLOCKER!! It's the best Kazaa Lite yet and it is based on KMD 2.7.2!!
http://www.freekazaalite.tk
http://www.freekazaalite.r8.org
http://www.freekazaalite.freakin.nl
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|ok guys... you guys who are still using kazaa and emula and the like... i fell like i need to clue you guys in... cuz few years back i was in the same boat.. but anyhow... the DC network... its opensource... its undergound... search for DC++... make sure you set it up right... make sure you got lots to share... thats all im gonna say.. you can only lead a man to water...
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|Amazing how most of us tend to forget there are other forms of file transfer besides the P2P way of life.. Shall we say usenet or IRC. :)
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|"Ha Ha Ha"
"The survey, which involved 1,421 adult Internet users" cannot be seriously used to represent any demographic other than a stupid one. Most P2P users aren't so talkative to anti-P2P associations; especially when it comes to questions about their habits. The fact that they blame P2P Networks as being responsible for sharing illicit material is proof enough that these grade A users try to discard their OWN responsibility.
On another note, I was shocked and appalled to see an episode of the beloved cartoon show on ABC TV Australia, Arthur, with the character 'Brain' endorsing the act of compiling CDs made up with tracks from various artists and reselling them in his parents icecream store. FOR SHAME! You CAN'T tell me this isn't ENTRAPMENT!
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Several years later:
Billy: "Do you have this new album?"
John: "Yeah, do you want it?"
Billy: "Yeah! Burn it for me."
John: "But copyright laws says I can't." :S
Billy: "Brain did it! Why the f*ck can't I?"
John: "Good point, they wouldn't play anything on TV to encourage illegal activities."
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ABC is yet to respond.
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|try yousendit.com
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|Like my subject says, music sales in the United States rose for 2004. [edit: http://www.abc.net.au/ne...ems/200503/s1331013.htm]
The move to digital is definately the way to go - You can gaurantee to see the increase continue for '05, the only problem? The RIAA will still complain how piracy is hurting sales.
10 billion isn't enough? Maybe instead of giving millions to rap artists who waste the money, actually give more to employee's behind the scenes.
Personally, I will never buy a piece of music again, not until I absolutely have too. Why? Because it's their fault they need more money, not ours. Their financial distribution system is horrible. At the same time I understand what I'm doing is illegal and I probably will end up paying for it one day - But isn't that what proxies are for? ;)
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|As i understand, it's mostly "American life project" ;) Do not forget about rest of The World, they can have diametrically opposite opinion about p2p!
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|This is more a case of the person telling the pollster what they wanted to hear. :)
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|I guess this makes sense from a feasibility standpoint. users don't want to want for their music/movies, and P2P pretty much makes waiting a requirement (for now,)
As bandwidth increases worldwide I think we'll see a move back towards P2P.
Emule forever. Setup a friends list and you are good to go to share your legal, educational files.
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|ha! the funniest thing ive herd... if the population is "file swappers" then the sample theire using is as biased as nader voters... they cannot conduct a survey of "adult Internet users" ...and then draw conclusions on "file swappers".... its ridiculous... next time they might want to conduct a poll with a representative sample ...statistics 101 -- emule and those other p2ps is not where the the files are being swapped ... that is for the grandmas and grandkinds... the DC network is live and kicking ... no central server... no fakes... thousands of hubs with hundreds of terabytes per. ... the open source clients like DC++ are gaining ground.. clones like revconnect are making the network multisource.. TTH cheking are insuring file integrity.. emule and its contemporaries are dead.
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|Sounds like more propaganda.........
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|But that sort of 'statistic' is what the entertainment industry will use to convince Congress to pass more stupid laws. "See Congressman, even the users think the networks are bad'.
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|Dupe post
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|It does seem this report is not as widespread and clear as it may well have been.
My outlook on this, is ok its good news for the music industry propagandists.
Can you stop flooding the networks now..??
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|That survey is just misleading and it should have never been in a news article. I don't think 1400 people could put a figure on how big file sharing is. The people who visit go to that website probably pay for Itunes anyway. I hope one day that those idiots in washington realize that they cannot snuff out new technology just cause its bad for business. They should find alternative methods rather than suing children and deceased grandmothers.
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|hehe sorta like the neilsons for tv.. a handful of people decide the programming choices for the world :)
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