> -----Original Message----- > From: Serguei Osokine > Subject: RE: [p2p-hackers] Computer scientists develop > P2Psystemthatpromisesfaster music, movie downloads > > 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)?
Ah, I see what you're saying. An indy musician who releases his songs via CD and has different fans upload different encodings to the network. Yes, that would work, but I can't help but admit seems contrived. The original claim was this makes downloads faster and better in the general case, which still seems only true for pirated music (and somewhat true for movie translations). That's fine -- pirated content breeds awesome tech, and this is yet another example. But let's not fool ourselves. -david _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
