Losses to file sharing greatly exaggerated

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Death of the desktop PC has been greatly
exaggerated

Death of the desktop PC has been greatly
exaggerated 06/11/2004 04:10 PM
SABC Jun 11 2004 7:58PM GMT

Death By Blog Greatly Exaggerated

Death By Blog Greatly Exaggerated 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
Shel Israel considers if blogs are the death of 'Zines. Like David Weinberger, he offered one when it was cutting edge media. Now he asks will blogging kill Confrenza, his paid subscription conference coverage 'Zine. ...Two weeks ago, while attending...

Rumors of my death are greatly
exaggerated.

Rumors of my death are greatly
exaggerated. 02/01/2005 09:53 PM

Okay, first off: I've got a massive MacWorld / Borders / Trip to SF and back report to write up. It's coming, and I hope it will be worth the wait. Until I can get it done, there are some wonderful links in the comments for my previous entry, from other bloggers who came to MacWorld, Borders, or both.

My short version? It was awesome. It was everything I'd hoped it would be, and more than I could have ever expected. The drive up was great, and the drive home (without Anne, because she went over to Tahoe to spend the weekend with her friend) was lonely, but enjoyable because I listened to Jay Mohr's book Gasping for Airtime most of the way. It's a interesting story . . . but you have to hear him read it. It's the difference between listening to Dark Side of the Moon and reading the sheet music.

Okay. Enough about the trip report that's coming. Here's the thing that made me fire up this nifty browser called "Epiphany," and write these words: I totally, completely, utterly b0rked my Debian machine before I left for MacWorld. I don't know what I did, exactly, but somehow it completely lost my mouse. modprobe psmouse and modprobe mousedev did nothing, and I couldn't find anything in a single online forum that would help me make my goddamn mouse work again. I tried dpkg-reconfigure gpm. I tried mouseconfig I tried cursing in lots of different languages, and making Faustian bargains with gods I'm pretty sure I just made up . . . I even taught myself how to recompile a linux kernel (the debian way and the other way) . . . but no dice.

Finally, I gave up, and decided to just start over with a clean partition and a new install. So I did mv /home/wil /mnt/hda1/backedup/, did a diff to make sure I didn't miss anything, and burned myself a copy of the latest Debian (Sarge) Network installer.

Oh. My. God. Becky. It was so easy.

Okay. Seriously. Back in the old days of 1999, everyone told me how easy it was to set Red Hat up, but how much cooler Debian was if you could just get past the nightmare install . . . well, this was about as easy an install of anything I've ever done. It was literally a handful of commands, and then a bunch of waiting while it grabbed a ton of packages and set them up.

I'm now sitting here with a honest-to-goodness Debian system, running kernel 2.6.8!

Check it out:

wil@bender:~$ uname -a
Linux bender 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:18:43 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Okay, this is probably not as exciting to anyone else as it is to me . . . but the fact that I got this working, and took all the HAM radio and isdn stuff out of the kernel, and still got it to work . . . it's a pretty big deal to me.

I'm logged into Gnome right now,( which I usually don't use -- I'm a KDE or Enlightenment kind of guy -- but it looks beautiful) and I've got apt installing Firefox and Thunderbird in a terminal, and then I've got to restore some of the backups, but I'm very proud of myself. Until I totally screw something else up, I feel like I can put on my propeller hat and give it a mighty spin. *snort*

I've got an audition tomorrow morning, then I'm working on the audio book of Just A Geek in the afternoon. Check back around Friday for the full SF trip report, and some other cool news.

Oh, man! And if this moment needed to get any better . . . They Might Be Giants just started singing Ana Ng on the radio behind me.

Death of the Internet greatly
exaggerated | CNET News.com

Death of the Internet greatly
exaggerated | CNET News.com 08/27/2004 03:40 PM
Death of the Internet greatly exaggerated .. the Internet is still functioning

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Rumors of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
demise greatly exaggerated

Rumors of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
demise greatly exaggerated 08/08/2004 08:38 PM
It is important to note that, despite reports elsewhere, this does not mean that the entire line is being canceled. The 3.4 and 3.6GHz LGA775 versions are still in development, and will be released.

Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!

Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters! 03/23/2005 04:46 AM
Launched this month, Apcala is a web system that allows you to share photographs, audio, video, documents and personalised profiles with friends, family, other Apcala users and the Internet at large. It’s advertising free and free to use. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]

Is the war on file sharing over?

Is the war on file sharing over? 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
The music biz is declaring success, citing lawsuits and Apple's iTunes. But to music fans who recall the glory days of Napster, the fight goes on.

Is The War On File Sharing Over?

Is The War On File Sharing Over? 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
The music biz is declaring success, citing lawsuits and Apple's iTunes. But to music fans who recall the glory days of Napster, the fight goes on. By Farhad Manjoo (Salon via MyAppleMenu)

The Ups And Downs Of File Sharing

The Ups And Downs Of File Sharing 04/26/2004 11:53 AM
The latest Pew study says that 14% of American internet users claim they've stopped downloading music, but that the number of people downloading has been steadily growing again over the last few months. The study has a few problems, however. First, it's all based on asking people about their activities, and considering the publicity campaign, it's easy to imagine a heavy file sharer saying they don't download any music because they don't want to risk opening themselves up to a lawsuit. Furthermore, the study does not appear to distinguish between what kind of music is being "downloaded." They seem to lump together downloading unauthorized files, using paid download stores like iTunes, or even legitimate downloads directly from a musician's own website.

'F' Is for File Sharing
(washingtonpost.com)

'F' Is for File Sharing
(washingtonpost.com) 09/09/2004 12:21 PM
washingtonpost.com - It's move-in day for freshmen at the University of Maryland's College Park campus and the narrow lawn outside Denton Hall is strewn with piles of suitcases, bedding and Dell computer boxes. If recent history is any guide, the smiling teens wandering amid the makeshift encampments are primed to join the next generation of hard-core music pirates who'll raid Internet file-swapping networks for hundreds of thousands of illegally copied songs over the next four years.

The File Sharing Experiment

The File Sharing Experiment 08/05/2004 12:38 PM

The File Sharing Experiment is a project with the goal of demonstrating how file sharing actually helps the music, movie, and software industry. Folks are encouraged to post purchases they've made and a short explanation of how they learned about the band/movie/game and why they ended up buying something for it. All the evidence is anectdotal, but when taken together, it's already over a quarter million dollars in reported sales and the site has been up for one week.

Personally, this was the point I tried to make in the heyday of Napster. You could find anything on Napster, but rarely could you find complete albums, so the service had the effect of promoting CD sales. I would often surf others' music lists whenever I noticed things I liked, download the things I hadn't ever heard of, then I'd end up buying CDs from Amazon.

The File Sharing Report

The File Sharing Report 09/18/2004 04:46 PM

MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1

MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1 01/22/2004 06:22 PM
Simple, private file sharing.

File Sharing Sentinel

File Sharing Sentinel 01/22/2004 09:15 AM

File Sharing Going Strong

File Sharing Going Strong 07/12/2004 11:07 AM

Online file swapping endures: What, exactly, is eDonkey?

Despite entertainment industry attempts to curb online song and movie swapping with lawsuits and education campaigns, more people than ever are using peer-to-peer services.

BigChampagne, which tracks Internet file sharing, says 8.3 million people were online at any one time in June using unauthorized services like Kazaa and eDonkey — up 19% from 6.8 million in June 2003.

The majority of files being traded were music, BigChampagne says. Porn videos and images were the second-biggest category.

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Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing

Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing 04/10/2005 12:50 PM

The File Sharing Database

The File Sharing Database 07/31/2004 05:25 PM

File-sharing war won't go away; it'll
just go abroad

File-sharing war won't go away; it'll
just go abroad 04/06/2005 02:26 AM
USA Today Apr 6 2005 5:32AM GMT

The File-Sharing Debates

The File-Sharing Debates 12/07/2003 02:35 AM
New York Times Dec 7 2003 1:15AM ET

File-sharing app eDonkey comes to Mac OS
X

File-sharing app eDonkey comes to Mac OS
X 06/29/2004 01:58 PM
eDonkey announced on Tuesday that its peer-to-peer file-sharing software is coming to Mac OS X. Previously, Mac support was available only through a text-based command line interface in the software. eDonkey links every client on the network with each other, allowing them to search within both the entire network and a subset of it. Users can also download files from multiple users simultaneously and automatically continue interrupted downloads during their next session, in addition to the ability to send private messages to other users. The eDonkey application is not finalized for Mac OS X yet, but you can download a Beta of either the free or paid version from the developer's Web site. Both require Mac OS X v10.2 or higher and 64MB RAM; the free version has limited features and displays ads when you use it.

File Sharing Goes Mobile

File Sharing Goes Mobile 09/08/2004 02:29 PM
With all these different music download stores and file sharing apps, it was only a matter of time before everything started to go mobile. I recently wrote up an article at TheFeature about all the various music download offerings for mobile phones, but it looks like some are already going beyond that to offer some form of "file sharing" as well. EMI has talked about mobile file sharing in the past, but it seemed pretty watered down. Recently, Wippit, makers of an increasingly popular DRM technology that encourages limited file sharing announced plans to offer mobile file sharing by letting users get around many wireless carriers by sending the file in response to an SMS message. The latest, though, is that SK Telecom is showing off a mobile file sharing system in Korea that will let users swap music files, ringtones, videos and more via their 3G network. They admit that it has no copy protection at all, and even say, "we're not thinking about that type of problem." It's not clear if that's because they never plan to actually launch it, or they just don't care. Given that the recording industry in Korea wanted to sue wireless carriers for offering MP3 playing phones (even after they agreed to forcibly degrade the sound quality), you have to wonder how long such an application would remain on the market. Still, it's been said many times before: it's only a matter of time until a real Napster-style file sharing app is written for mobile phones, whether by the carriers themselves or (more likely) independently. And still, everyone in the wireless and music industry seems to ignore this potential problem and insist that overpriced ringtone revenue will be around forever.

Fired up over file sharing

Fired up over file sharing 08/20/2004 12:11 PM
As hackers find a way to trade with iTunes, a court rules that software makers are not liable for file swappers' actions.

NYT Promotes File Sharing

NYT Promotes File Sharing 09/10/2004 12:37 PM

File-Sharing Primer

File-Sharing Primer 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

File Sharing Undented

File Sharing Undented 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

Seems file sharing in the US has dropped a little while their are increases in Europe. I am sure that third world traffic numbers have increased as the majority of the third world cannot afford software prices. [Smart Mobs]

MUTE File Sharing 0.2

MUTE File Sharing 0.2 01/10/2004 05:42 PM
Simple, private file sharing.

Faux File-Sharing

Faux File-Sharing 01/05/2005 11:29 AM

What consumers want—an out-of-box way to share and transmit files between different storage media and computers (and users)—is exactly what manufacturers don't want to give them, but they'll tease us a little. So, if you're really rich, DigitalDeck Entertainment Network is busting out an in-home network PC to gear to DVD sharing system that costs $4000 - $5000. It probably consists of a bunch of cables and a universal remote that your geeked-out younger brother could hack together himself.
Techno-enhanced televisions take big step into spotlight [USA Today]

file sharing = piracy? Not really.

file sharing = piracy? Not really. 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

An interesting Salon article: Is the war on file sharing over?:

If one is willing to believe the happy talk from music business executives, the tide has finally turned against file sharing, thanks to the get-tough tactics employed by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Last fall, the RIAA began filing lawsuits against individual users of peer-to-peer trading sites, and the strategy, the RIAA says now, has paid off. The group is careful not to declare a final victory over file trading, but things are finally beginning to look up for a business long in decline, say industry representatives. After years of scoffing at copyright laws, Americans are finally beginning to understand the gravity of file trading's offense against copyright.

The article is interesting. But what I find most interesting is this automatic alignment that is made in the media discourse between file sharing and piracy. There are many, many uses other than those the RIAA defines as illegitimate for file sharing (note, I am not saying anonymous file sharing, although there worthy uses for that too). Sure, the media loves a good fight and that's why the focus on this comparison. But the uses of sharing should, can, and will move beyond those in dispute. And not just for files, either.

Why am I saying this? Well, can't you guess?

Stay tuned. :-)

File-sharing Goes Social

File-sharing Goes Social 01/07/2004 02:52 PM
The RIAA has taken us on a tour of networking strategies in the last few years, by constantly changing the environment file-sharing systems operate in. In hostile environments, organisms often adapt to become less energetic but harder to kill, and so it is now. With the RIAA's waves of legal attacks driving experimentation with decentralized file-sharing tools, file-sharing networks have progressively traded efficiency for resistance to legal attack.

The RIAA has slowly altered the environment so that relatively efficient systems like Napster were killed, opening up a niche for more decentralized systems like Gnutella and Kazaa. With their current campaign against Kazaa in full swing, we are about to see another shift in network design, one that will have file sharers adopting tools originally designed for secure collaboration in a corporate setting. - More at http://www.shirky.com/writings/file-sharing_social.html

Call to tax file-sharing

Call to tax file-sharing 09/22/2004 04:22 AM
BBC Sep 22 2004 8:22AM GMT

File Sharing Against Censorship

File Sharing Against Censorship 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
In the early days of the web, there was lots of talk about how it would help usher in democracy and bring down dictatorships, because information could not be contained. Turned out that wasn't exactly true, as places like China do a pretty good job (though, certainly not perfect) containing information online. So now, more people are starting to look at ways to use file sharing as a news delivery system that is much more difficult to block than typical file sharing. This isn't all that new, but making such programs easier to use would go a long way towards getting this to work. In fact, why not combine the concept with a news aggregator of some kind, so that the news you're reading is automatically available to everyone else using the software.

The making of a File Sharing IP Mask

The making of a File Sharing IP Mask 02/12/2004 04:23 AM
A programmer got so pissed at the RIAA for their antics that he has developed a program that mask users...

File-sharing to bypass censorship

File-sharing to bypass censorship 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship.

File sharing networks win in court

File sharing networks win in court 08/19/2004 08:36 PM
USA Today Aug 20 2004 0:31AM GMT

Japanese Men Accused of File-Sharing

Japanese Men Accused of File-Sharing 12/05/2003 07:47 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 5 2003 6:18PM ET

Anti-File Sharing Bill Changes Name,
Little Else

Anti-File Sharing Bill Changes Name,
Little Else 06/23/2004 05:34 PM
Last week we wrote about the so-called INDUC E Act, that would outlaw inducing or even counseling someone to infringe on copyrights. The bill was supposed to be introduced last week, but some of the publicity around the leaded version made the sponsors hold back a few days. If you thought they used that time to change the bill, you were wrong. They did change the name, getting rid of the laughable "child exploitation" part in the name, but leaving the actual law the same. The bill is now called, The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA), which must upset those politicians who love bill names that spell out words related to the bill. Either way it's a dreadful and somewhat scary bill that would clearly outlaw file sharing networks, along with VCRs and other methods for infringing copyrights. Unfortunately, it appears to have strong bi-partisan backing, that's looking to rush it through Congress. If it did pass, it would be disastrous for the tech industry which (stupidly) is supporting it in the form of the BSA and the ESA. The RIAA is also thrilled about it. All three are missing out on the fact that they're basically trying to kill off the best distribution system that's ever been handed to them -- one that's been shown to have strong promotional value. It's amazing how badly these industries, with their pocketed politicians are shooting themselves in the foot. This bill would make it impossible to create something like the VCR or TiVo today. It's dangerous, it's stupid and it's going to damage our economy if it passes. Update: TechLawAdvisor points out the fact that "counsels" has been dropped from the bill.

Mac AIM 4.7 adds Friendly Name, new file
sharing

Mac AIM 4.7 adds Friendly Name, new file
sharing 02/19/2004 04:00 AM
America Online announced on Wednesday that the Mac version of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7, the company's popular online chat application, is now available for download. It adds Friendly Name support as well as a new file sharing implementation.

File Sharing Helps Terrorists

File Sharing Helps Terrorists 04/30/2004 04:57 AM
A few months ago, some entertainment industry folks floated the idea that file sharing "helped terrorists" because certain groups that were suspected of funding terrorist operations had ties to counterfeiting gangs. That was quite a stretch, but now the US Army is pointing out that file sharing might actually help terrorists if it's done by soldiers out in the field. It appears that American soldiers, far away from home, are trying to download the latest music via file sharing networks. Unfortunately, in some of these areas, bandwidth is a lot more scarce, and having it eaten up by people downloading the latest songs isn't helping matters. At the end, they also mention that, oh yeah, there's that whole copyright infringement thing - but the bandwidth issue is much more important.

File Sharing Is Totally Uncool

File Sharing Is Totally Uncool 04/30/2004 04:52 AM
The MPAA tries to turn junior high school into anti-piracy camp, complete with scripted role-playing educational games. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine.
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