On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:38:52AM -0700, David Barrett wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Serguei Osokine > > > > No one needs an extra source for a Harry Potter movie download. > > It already has 5,447. But some item in the long tail that is present > > in just one copy on the network is more likely than not to belong to > > some indy musician, who views P2P as a marketing tool - not as a > > piracy one. > > Well, if it's legit indy content it'd probably be encoded once by musician > and uploaded. I'm not sure I see a general case for how there'd be multiple > distinct encodings of the same song unless pirated. > > -david
And if its obscure or long tail type content I don't see a significant cost to just hosting it in one place. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
