The Pirate Bay does far more than link to infringing material. You should read the opinion for a thorough account. It is available in English on the IFPI's website.
torrent sites are finding less and less friendly ground to work from. Sweden was one of the few non-communist block nations where they could operate. Most of the current torrent sites have fairly short lives, come and go quickly.
yeah, oink went away, but what.cd took it's place, no doubt along with at least a couple of others that i am not aware of.
if there is no place to run to then why did demonoid come back online after being shut down? the shutdown actually did me a favor cuz i was finally able to get an account.
why did eztv.efnet.org go offline for a month and re-appear even stronger as eztv.it? it's public too.
they do what they do to be famous and to make a shitload of money, hidden in offshore accounts. Please be accurate in your statements.
sure they make a lot of money and they are famous. after all, they do run one of the most heavily visited websites in the world. you know what helps you spread your political views? being famous and making money. you know what is guaranteed to get you laid? being famous and making money. they are probably just as interested in impressing girls.
being famous and making money doesn't change the fact that they use TPB as a sounding board for their political views about privacy, ip reform, and internet culture: http://thepiratebay.org/doodles
A good example would be the guy who gets a second internet service into his home solely for downloading. He downloads 100 movies each month, and pays $100 for internet service. Thus, his marginal costs per copy are $1. His copy isn't free.
wow, my cable bill is $90 a month (basic cable which i never watch, but have to have to get internet access), that means i am spending $90 a month for downloading thousands of movies, songs, books, articles, tv shows, audio books, and games. plus $90 for bank transactions, reading news, web comics, communications (email, im, irc, vetrillo, skype, facebook), telephone service (on top of the $12 a month my voip accounts cost me!!!), and remote access to work...
oh, and i bought plane tickets to defcon, that's an extra $90 the internet cost me.
jesus christ, using the internet has cost me like $20,000 dollars this month!!!
and i haven't factored in the rest of the folks that live with me using the same internet access and spending commensurate amounts of money!!! there's 5 of us in the house, that's like $100,000 per month!!!
no wonder the RIAA charges millions for filesharing a few songs, i had no idea that bandwidth cost so much!!!
i am going home right now and setting fire to all my computers!!!
if only everyone had your powerful grasp of economics, we could save trillions of dollars.
It's the end, my friends, joining Oink and all the other cute but not entirely legal ideas that went before them.
yeah right, you mean like demonoid or EZTV that have been shutdown and resurrected?
nope, it's just the beginning. if TPB acutally shuts down (which it won't) and doesn't come back up in short order (which it will) there will be 5 new websites to take it's place, meaning 5 new sets of torrents to snoop, assuming the community doesn't go to something like TOR.
did you know you can run services on the TOR network? TOR is like a big secret anonymous darknet. it's awesome.
TPB is what it is and does what it does to make a political statement. if they do get shut down, and less political and more underground groups step in to fill the void then the real skulduggery will start. i can't wait!
But I was wrong, apparently, because you cannot transfer such files to phones. At least, I could not find a PlaysForSure phone.
and that is why the anti-circumvention laws in the DMCA are so anti-consumer. you chose to go with amazon, you are now limited to plays-for-sure players.
if you buy an ipod or an iphone, there is no guarantee that your legally downloaded videos will play. also, if microsoft pulls the plug on plays-for-sure, you might be up the creek.
but, MS is a huge company, plays-for-sure will be around for ever, right? i mean MS is bigger than apple, with like a bunch more money, surely they won't trash plays-for-sure, right?
just keep in mind, microsoft's flagship player, the zune, is not plays-for-sure.
sobering thought, isn't it?
so, you can download DRM free content from bit torrent illegally. or you can legally purchase content that may stop working at a later date and strip the defunct DRM off later, which is also illegal.
you are a criminal either way. so why not go with the option that let's you get the content for free at the beginning?
I suspect the error rate is about the same as an other legal action taken (including speeding tickets). Perfection isn't always possible, except on Techdirt.
zing!
well that's it boys, the jig is up, time to shut the whole thing down. we had a good run. it was fun while it lasted.
hey mike, be remember to turn the lights off on your way out.
So I buy my TV shows by season thru iTunes, mainly so I can use my DLO HomeDock HD (Real cool) and AppleTV on the bigscreen. Front Row runs on my computer too.
and i BT whole series at a time, toss them on a file server and watch them on xbox media center or on my netbook or nokia tablet. you kick it apple genius bar style, and i keep it pirate fabulous.
either way, that is how movies, music, and everything else will be consumed going forward. once all the babyboomers are dead, no one will buy physical media anymore. crushing napster and kazaa created bit torrent. crushing hulu and whatever comes after it will only create something indestructible.
Is the book in and of itself so bad? Great works don't need to be fluff sold.
i couldn't agree more. good art just stands on its own. you don't see real authors promoting their works by appearing on talk shows and traveling around signing copies at bookstores, do you? no sir. you write the book, it goes on the shelf at a store with walls and you get a hojillion dollars. it worked that way for my great granddad and it'll work that way for me too.
Personally, I don't see why so many people prefer streaming movies/downloading unless they are pirating. Quality isn't nearly as good and to store HD files takes up way to much hard drive space. I have a nice 50 inch 1080p LCD and Im going to get the most out of it.
in my situation, the size and quality of the screen isn't the issue, it's the sheer number of screens. i need several smaller screens rather than a single large one. streaming to a computer screen happens quite a bit for me and my family, either via youtube, hulu, or off a file server.
with 5 or more people in a house each with different gaming and viewing needs, that would mean 5+ separate computer and HD setups, which is a ton of space. half of what's supposed to be my living room is a wall with 4 computer desks on it, the other half is a couple of couches in front of a tv.
at my place, the living room is mostly for video games. the tv is mostly used for consoles. if everyone agrees on watching the same thing we'll watch movies or TV but you just don't see it happening all that often, and it's usually me and my wife after we have commandeered the TV. i am considering a second TV in the living room (opposite the second couch) so you could watch video on one and game on the other.
a smaller screen in a personal space, like a monitor with headphones or a smaller TV in a bedroom is how most of my family works. a huge TV at my place would be a waste of real estate, unless you could display 4 separate images on it so you could play different consoles and watch different shows at the same time.
my hope is that larger screen standard def TV's will start flooding craigslist soon and we can upgrade our collection of TV's so that everyone can have a bigger TV in their bedroom and/or we can put 2 or 3 TV's in the living room, but i haven't managed to tackle the audio problem just yet (wireless headphones i guess).
some day, when i live somewhere that i have the space to dedicate a whole room to a single screen, i will build a big setup with a projector and start downloading in h264, but for the foreseeable future, streaming/downloading in low quality to small screens works best.
The PS3 has to be separated out from standalone devices. Not everybody who buys one actually uses it to watch BR movies. (Remember that study a year ago that 60% of PS3 owners didn't even know it could play Blu-ray discs?) But you can pretty much guarantee that everybody who buys a standalone player does so with the intent to watch movies.
there is also the corollary: the ps3 costs less than most bluray players. my father in law was talking just a few days ago about how he wants to get a ps3 because it is a better value than a dedicated player because the ps3 can play games as well.
They all made a fortune when we all had to scrap our albums and switch to CDs and rebuy the same music. The music industry is in the third or fourth generation of digital and the size of music files and the proliferation of players and computers has made it much easier for music files to propagate unauthorized.
the media may have been digital but the distribution has always been analog. the industry's problem is that the world stopped buying plastic discs. the same is true for the movie industry: digital delivery killing the sale of plastic discs.
A digital film, esp. bluray, is hard to share because its ginormous. Pretty soon that will be as hard to control as music proliferation.
bluray films in full quality are out there on the scene. you can download them easily enough via the same technology you use to download anything else, bluray just takes longer.
The idea isn't to stop kids from getting tattoos, it is to stop them from glorifying gang style tats. You need to understand how signficant an old english lettered tattoo can be to a gang member to understand the significance.
i agree.
old english letters were invented by black gangs to symbolize their black gang super powers and like you, i think black people are scary.
And the whole infinite good thing is really shaky, though I know it's been discussed endlessly here and, yes, I've read those discussions. My contention is that the good remains scarce.
you confuse creating content with distributing it. the CD was a method of distribution. digital distribution costs practically nothing if you host it yourself and literally nothing if you use peer to peer file sharing apps like bittorrent.
BT has no effect on the price of content creation. HOWEVER, since the value of content was often determined based on physical copies sold (via distribution), BT does affect the way that the value of content is perceived.
other technologies like the affordable audio and video equipment, editing tools and PCs will drive down the cost of content creation, making it possible to generate content of increasing quality (editing becomes easier to do) in less time (the editing process takes less time) for less money (lower costs mean it's easier to turn a profit).
Let's assume there is still only one version of Lenon's "Imagine" that anyone wants, for example.
that is a rather large assumption. why not also assume that everyone in the free world will wake up tomorrow and hate computers, digital media players, and the internet? that would create a huge demand for CDs and DVDs and we could all go back to the good old days of the 80's.
It never becomes infinite as there is only one recording of that one song that has the characteristics that the marketplace remembers and desires.
it's just bits. once you own a computer and a connection for said computer to a network of other computers, copying and moving bits costs nothing. why would people pay for something that costs nothing to duplicate and deliver?
Scarce. And legal copies of that good remain certainly something far less than infinite. That some people using some technology have made (presently illegal) copies of the single, scarce recording of that song does NOT mean that the good itself is ubiquitous, much less "infinite."
yes it is ubiquitous. it's out there right now, high quality, for free, and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. if you want to make money off "imagine" you need to find a way that doesn't involve selling the actual song because anyone who is interested in owning the song already has it, or will have it not long after they have learned about its existence.
It does mean that it is being distributed in a way (largely illegal) that makes it more easily available at least to more affluent populations with access to the necessary technology.
and who cares if it's legal or not? people get what they want regardless of morality, legality, or even survivability. this is why people smoke, drink, do drugs, and carry guns even though they kill people every day. if you think you can stop or control what people want to do, you are sadly mistaken.
Saying it is ubiquitously or infinitely available would imply that most members of the marketplace (global music consumers) have the unfettered means to obtain a copy of this scarce, original song in a format which is of reasonable quality and can be played locally.
we're already there partner. every year the PC drops in price, every year mobile phones become more powerful and push more and more features down to the level of the free phone, and every year wireless technologies of all kinds become more prevalent and powerful.
you don't need access to the internet to pirate stuff. the warez scene predates commercial access to the internet by about 20 years. wikipedia DVDs are available via torrent for electronic classrooms that will never see direct access to the internet. the XO laptop connects to other laptops via wireless mesh for one reason alone: easy transfer of files.
portable hard drives crossed the terabyte threshold years ago and there is no easier way to move the billboard top 100 from 1955 to 2005 than on a 40 gig hard drive.
in three years' time, taiwanese netbooks will be more prevalent in the third world than the ak47 and cause as much if not more revolution, and a dime store prepaid phone will have more features than your iphone 3g. call it an iBurner.
(I would also tack on the nuance that for it to be truly infinite, the means of distribution and instantiations of that song that are received by the consumer need to be legal, else it's just trafficking which will always be something less than ubiquitous.)
right, legality is a big concern when you cross international borders. that's why so many asian and african countries produce their own AIDS medications using the same formula found on merk's patent and merk hasn't seen a dime.
the fact is that MOST music consumers DON'T have unfettered, easy access to obtain this one scarce song. Do "most" of the world's music consumers - from Africa to the Americas, including all social classes who present spend some money on music - have unfettered access to this song? Doubtful.
that assumption is living on borrowed time. counting on the digital divide to prop up the physical media business, is a suckers' bet. it's just a matter of education and cheap hardware (mostly the latter, rather than the former) before the third world learns from the trial and error of the first world.
search google images for the shenzhen electronics market, it makes akihabara look like a kiosk at a mall in montana. trade agreements keep a lot of those parts out of europe and north america, but there is not much keeping that stuff out of india, south america, and africa.
we are already seeing hacking attempts and phishing scams coming from africa, so it's just a matter of time before the hackers there make use of those computers that vista and leopard have sent to american and european landfills and cheap gear from china to start the third world's own information revolution.
not only is the song scarce by its very nature - there can be only one, to quote Highlander - but the "infinite" distribution that may be available at some point in the future of humanity once technology is truly ubiquitous (not just affluent populations in technologically advanced nations) is hardly here now. And what is here is often (mostly?) illegal. Infinite good, why that's just "insulting." :-)
you talk like this sort of thing is decades away. it may already be here and now, and at best it's only a couple of years off. NOW is the time to change models and retool corporate organizations. a global economic downturn is only going to make "regular" people more inclined to stop spending on traditional media and rely more on freely distributed materials.
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they also taunt the ifpi:
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hollywood too:
http://static.thepiratebay.org/doodles/hollywood.jpg
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yeah, oink went away, but what.cd took it's place, no doubt along with at least a couple of others that i am not aware of.
if there is no place to run to then why did demonoid come back online after being shut down? the shutdown actually did me a favor cuz i was finally able to get an account.
why did eztv.efnet.org go offline for a month and re-appear even stronger as eztv.it? it's public too.
they do what they do to be famous and to make a shitload of money, hidden in offshore accounts. Please be accurate in your statements.
sure they make a lot of money and they are famous. after all, they do run one of the most heavily visited websites in the world. you know what helps you spread your political views? being famous and making money. you know what is guaranteed to get you laid? being famous and making money. they are probably just as interested in impressing girls.
being famous and making money doesn't change the fact that they use TPB as a sounding board for their political views about privacy, ip reform, and internet culture:
http://thepiratebay.org/doodles
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wow, my cable bill is $90 a month (basic cable which i never watch, but have to have to get internet access), that means i am spending $90 a month for downloading thousands of movies, songs, books, articles, tv shows, audio books, and games. plus $90 for bank transactions, reading news, web comics, communications (email, im, irc, vetrillo, skype, facebook), telephone service (on top of the $12 a month my voip accounts cost me!!!), and remote access to work...
oh, and i bought plane tickets to defcon, that's an extra $90 the internet cost me.
jesus christ, using the internet has cost me like $20,000 dollars this month!!!
and i haven't factored in the rest of the folks that live with me using the same internet access and spending commensurate amounts of money!!! there's 5 of us in the house, that's like $100,000 per month!!!
no wonder the RIAA charges millions for filesharing a few songs, i had no idea that bandwidth cost so much!!!
i am going home right now and setting fire to all my computers!!!
if only everyone had your powerful grasp of economics, we could save trillions of dollars.
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yeah right, you mean like demonoid or EZTV that have been shutdown and resurrected?
nope, it's just the beginning. if TPB acutally shuts down (which it won't) and doesn't come back up in short order (which it will) there will be 5 new websites to take it's place, meaning 5 new sets of torrents to snoop, assuming the community doesn't go to something like TOR.
did you know you can run services on the TOR network? TOR is like a big secret anonymous darknet. it's awesome.
TPB is what it is and does what it does to make a political statement. if they do get shut down, and less political and more underground groups step in to fill the void then the real skulduggery will start. i can't wait!
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you lie down with dogs...
sony destroys everything it touches, it's too bad that emusic didn't know that ahead of time.
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and that is why the anti-circumvention laws in the DMCA are so anti-consumer. you chose to go with amazon, you are now limited to plays-for-sure players.
if you buy an ipod or an iphone, there is no guarantee that your legally downloaded videos will play. also, if microsoft pulls the plug on plays-for-sure, you might be up the creek.
but, MS is a huge company, plays-for-sure will be around for ever, right? i mean MS is bigger than apple, with like a bunch more money, surely they won't trash plays-for-sure, right?
just keep in mind, microsoft's flagship player, the zune, is not plays-for-sure.
sobering thought, isn't it?
so, you can download DRM free content from bit torrent illegally. or you can legally purchase content that may stop working at a later date and strip the defunct DRM off later, which is also illegal.
you are a criminal either way. so why not go with the option that let's you get the content for free at the beginning?
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well that's it boys, the jig is up, time to shut the whole thing down. we had a good run. it was fun while it lasted.
hey mike, be remember to turn the lights off on your way out.
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yup, and being registered totally precludes you from posting anonymously. thanks for clearing that up.
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and i BT whole series at a time, toss them on a file server and watch them on xbox media center or on my netbook or nokia tablet. you kick it apple genius bar style, and i keep it pirate fabulous.
either way, that is how movies, music, and everything else will be consumed going forward. once all the babyboomers are dead, no one will buy physical media anymore. crushing napster and kazaa created bit torrent. crushing hulu and whatever comes after it will only create something indestructible.
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i couldn't agree more. good art just stands on its own. you don't see real authors promoting their works by appearing on talk shows and traveling around signing copies at bookstores, do you? no sir. you write the book, it goes on the shelf at a store with walls and you get a hojillion dollars. it worked that way for my great granddad and it'll work that way for me too.
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they can try. they won't succeed.
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you internet people have no reason to live. do you know how hard i work making people wait for hours for me to not show up?
now you want to get shows on the internet without a box that i failed to properly install? no sir, not on my watch.
when this internet fad passes you will all be really sorry that you put hardworking people like me out of work.
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in my situation, the size and quality of the screen isn't the issue, it's the sheer number of screens. i need several smaller screens rather than a single large one. streaming to a computer screen happens quite a bit for me and my family, either via youtube, hulu, or off a file server.
with 5 or more people in a house each with different gaming and viewing needs, that would mean 5+ separate computer and HD setups, which is a ton of space. half of what's supposed to be my living room is a wall with 4 computer desks on it, the other half is a couple of couches in front of a tv.
at my place, the living room is mostly for video games. the tv is mostly used for consoles. if everyone agrees on watching the same thing we'll watch movies or TV but you just don't see it happening all that often, and it's usually me and my wife after we have commandeered the TV. i am considering a second TV in the living room (opposite the second couch) so you could watch video on one and game on the other.
a smaller screen in a personal space, like a monitor with headphones or a smaller TV in a bedroom is how most of my family works. a huge TV at my place would be a waste of real estate, unless you could display 4 separate images on it so you could play different consoles and watch different shows at the same time.
my hope is that larger screen standard def TV's will start flooding craigslist soon and we can upgrade our collection of TV's so that everyone can have a bigger TV in their bedroom and/or we can put 2 or 3 TV's in the living room, but i haven't managed to tackle the audio problem just yet (wireless headphones i guess).
some day, when i live somewhere that i have the space to dedicate a whole room to a single screen, i will build a big setup with a projector and start downloading in h264, but for the foreseeable future, streaming/downloading in low quality to small screens works best.
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there is also the corollary: the ps3 costs less than most bluray players. my father in law was talking just a few days ago about how he wants to get a ps3 because it is a better value than a dedicated player because the ps3 can play games as well.
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the media may have been digital but the distribution has always been analog. the industry's problem is that the world stopped buying plastic discs. the same is true for the movie industry: digital delivery killing the sale of plastic discs.
A digital film, esp. bluray, is hard to share because its ginormous. Pretty soon that will be as hard to control as music proliferation.
bluray films in full quality are out there on the scene. you can download them easily enough via the same technology you use to download anything else, bluray just takes longer.
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i agree.
old english letters were invented by black gangs to symbolize their black gang super powers and like you, i think black people are scary.
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you confuse creating content with distributing it. the CD was a method of distribution. digital distribution costs practically nothing if you host it yourself and literally nothing if you use peer to peer file sharing apps like bittorrent.
BT has no effect on the price of content creation. HOWEVER, since the value of content was often determined based on physical copies sold (via distribution), BT does affect the way that the value of content is perceived.
other technologies like the affordable audio and video equipment, editing tools and PCs will drive down the cost of content creation, making it possible to generate content of increasing quality (editing becomes easier to do) in less time (the editing process takes less time) for less money (lower costs mean it's easier to turn a profit).
Let's assume there is still only one version of Lenon's "Imagine" that anyone wants, for example.
that is a rather large assumption. why not also assume that everyone in the free world will wake up tomorrow and hate computers, digital media players, and the internet? that would create a huge demand for CDs and DVDs and we could all go back to the good old days of the 80's.
It never becomes infinite as there is only one recording of that one song that has the characteristics that the marketplace remembers and desires.
it's just bits. once you own a computer and a connection for said computer to a network of other computers, copying and moving bits costs nothing. why would people pay for something that costs nothing to duplicate and deliver?
Scarce. And legal copies of that good remain certainly something far less than infinite. That some people using some technology have made (presently illegal) copies of the single, scarce recording of that song does NOT mean that the good itself is ubiquitous, much less "infinite."
yes it is ubiquitous. it's out there right now, high quality, for free, and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. if you want to make money off "imagine" you need to find a way that doesn't involve selling the actual song because anyone who is interested in owning the song already has it, or will have it not long after they have learned about its existence.
It does mean that it is being distributed in a way (largely illegal) that makes it more easily available at least to more affluent populations with access to the necessary technology.
and who cares if it's legal or not? people get what they want regardless of morality, legality, or even survivability. this is why people smoke, drink, do drugs, and carry guns even though they kill people every day. if you think you can stop or control what people want to do, you are sadly mistaken.
Saying it is ubiquitously or infinitely available would imply that most members of the marketplace (global music consumers) have the unfettered means to obtain a copy of this scarce, original song in a format which is of reasonable quality and can be played locally.
we're already there partner. every year the PC drops in price, every year mobile phones become more powerful and push more and more features down to the level of the free phone, and every year wireless technologies of all kinds become more prevalent and powerful.
you don't need access to the internet to pirate stuff. the warez scene predates commercial access to the internet by about 20 years. wikipedia DVDs are available via torrent for electronic classrooms that will never see direct access to the internet. the XO laptop connects to other laptops via wireless mesh for one reason alone: easy transfer of files.
portable hard drives crossed the terabyte threshold years ago and there is no easier way to move the billboard top 100 from 1955 to 2005 than on a 40 gig hard drive.
in three years' time, taiwanese netbooks will be more prevalent in the third world than the ak47 and cause as much if not more revolution, and a dime store prepaid phone will have more features than your iphone 3g. call it an iBurner.
(I would also tack on the nuance that for it to be truly infinite, the means of distribution and instantiations of that song that are received by the consumer need to be legal, else it's just trafficking which will always be something less than ubiquitous.)
right, legality is a big concern when you cross international borders. that's why so many asian and african countries produce their own AIDS medications using the same formula found on merk's patent and merk hasn't seen a dime.
the fact is that MOST music consumers DON'T have unfettered, easy access to obtain this one scarce song. Do "most" of the world's music consumers - from Africa to the Americas, including all social classes who present spend some money on music - have unfettered access to this song? Doubtful.
that assumption is living on borrowed time. counting on the digital divide to prop up the physical media business, is a suckers' bet. it's just a matter of education and cheap hardware (mostly the latter, rather than the former) before the third world learns from the trial and error of the first world.
search google images for the shenzhen electronics market, it makes akihabara look like a kiosk at a mall in montana. trade agreements keep a lot of those parts out of europe and north america, but there is not much keeping that stuff out of india, south america, and africa.
we are already seeing hacking attempts and phishing scams coming from africa, so it's just a matter of time before the hackers there make use of those computers that vista and leopard have sent to american and european landfills and cheap gear from china to start the third world's own information revolution.
not only is the song scarce by its very nature - there can be only one, to quote Highlander - but the "infinite" distribution that may be available at some point in the future of humanity once technology is truly ubiquitous (not just affluent populations in technologically advanced nations) is hardly here now. And what is here is often (mostly?) illegal. Infinite good, why that's just "insulting." :-)
you talk like this sort of thing is decades away. it may already be here and now, and at best it's only a couple of years off. NOW is the time to change models and retool corporate organizations. a global economic downturn is only going to make "regular" people more inclined to stop spending on traditional media and rely more on freely distributed materials.
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