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Spin to Win & Sanity

Filed in archive Analysis , RIAA, MPAA by Marc on December 05, 2005

Andrew Kantor has a fine article in USA Today "For file sharing, it's the same old song" , exactly the same theme I covered in P2P Future Past Perfect: Industry Commentary where I quipped "So where is P2P heading? ... Nowhere new."

Kantor takes his starting place from the entertainment industrylinks's current spin on the latest Bit Torrent news.

"I think the best policy is to declare victory and leave," said Senator George Aiken (R - Vermont) during the Vietnam war. I think that's a policy the entertainment industry is adopting in its ongoing battle against peer-to-peer file sharing.

Aiken's point, for those of you light on history, is that when the war is unwinnable, you simply redefine "victory" and get the heck out.

This logic would explain why the recording industry keeps saying that illegal file sharing is almost finished, yet the amount of stuff available on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks remains staggering.

Here is a choice excerpt on Pirate Bay in Sweden.

The site even sports a section of legal threats against it from the likes of Apple, Dreamworks, Microsoft, and Warner Brothers - threats it ignored, as its based in Sweden and what it does (index files, not actually keep them) is perfectly legal there.

One response to Electronic Arts read in part, "Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(."

Marc Freedman
RazorPop, developer of TrustyFiles, the leading multiple network file sharing software with search and download of ALL top networks.
Are you a major entertainment company, other content provider, distributor, marketer, advertiser, or other organization seeking to reach the huge 80 million P2P user market? Then you need BrandedP2P.



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