On Friday, April 13, 2007 David Barrett wrote:
> 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.
And why would that particular encoding become a master copy
of all MP3s? Indy musicians also have CDs, CDs get ripped, etc.
Why would the situation be any different from Madonna, except that
there will be fewer distinct rips (but still many more than one)?
And on Friday, April 13, 2007 Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> And if its obscure or long tail type content I don't see a
> significant cost to just hosting it in one place.
This is not about cost. Most of the Web today could be easily
hosted by AOL. And all of it - by Google. But this is not happening
for many reasons. Decentralized publishing and storage model has
multiple advantages, which is why it is so popular in both Web and
P2P domains.
Returning to our application domain, you can have all MP3s for
an indy musician stored at his Web page, sure. But if he's an obscure
guy, most of people would not even know about him, much less about
his Web page. So if his music will be more easiuly downloadable on
P2P after browsing a friend's shared files (to give just one example)
it might be beneficial to him.
Which is what P2P is about - the biggest totally unappreciated
marketing effort in the history of mankind. And this feature improves
the promotional capacity of P2P for people who need it, without doing
any harm to people who are already well-known. Sounds like an ideal
balance to me.
Best wishes -
S.Osokine.
13 Apr 2007.
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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.
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