วันนี้ผมมีความสุขกับงานชิ้นนี้ครับ เป็นบทความที่พูดถึงผู้หญิงคนหนึ่งที่ประสบความสำเร็จจากการเริ่มทำสิ่งเล็กๆ เพียงลำพังอย่างตั้งอกตั้งใจ วันหนึ่งเมล็ดพันธุ์เหล่านั้นก็ผลิดอกออกผลให้เก็บเกี่ยว

ผมชอบที่มาเรีย ดิกบี้ ไม่ได้ออกมาล่าฝันในอุตสาหกรรมเพลง แต่กลับใช้ไซเบอร์สเปซทำสิ่งที่เธอถนัด ใครจะรู้ว่าวันหนึ่งเพลงของเธอจะถูกจัดจำหน่ายใน Online Music Store ที่ติดอันดับต้นๆในโลกอย่าง iTunes

ดังนั้นในช่วงเวลาที่คำว่า "นักล่าฝัน" กำลังเป็นคำฮิตติดปากแห่งยุคสมัย ถ้าเราต้องการปลายทางที่เหมือนกัน ทำไมไม่ลองไปทางอื่นดูบ้าง อย่างน้อยโลกไซเบอร์ก็พอมีที่ทางเหล่านั้นอยู่ ถ้าเข้าใจ-อดทน-หมั่นฝึกฝนและรอคอยโอกาส ผมเห็นด้วยอย่างยิ่งที่มาเรียบอกว่า "อินเตอร์เน็ตทำให้ต้นทุนการเป็นศิลปินในยุคนี้กลายเป็นศูนย์" แต่ในทางกลับกันต้นทุนก็กลายเป็นศูนย์ได้เหมือนกัน ถ้าไม่ขยันและใฝ่รู้ตลอดเวลา ลองอ่านเรื่องของเธอคนนี้ดูครับ 

่Joy read ^_^

ตีพิมพ์ครั้งแรก หนังสือพิมพ์กรุงเทพธุรกิจรายสัปดาห์ เซคชั่น ET 16 พฤษภาคม 2551 คอลัมน์ Cyberia  

วิวัฒนาการล่าสุดของวงการเพลงในปีนี้หรือว่าปีหน้า ไม่ใช่การขึ้นเสียงเถียงกันดังว่า ปี 2008 ฮิพฮอพจะค่อยๆ ซา  เพราะสกา-เร็กเก้กำลังมา กระทั่งว่าดนตรีดิสโก้เต้นรำต่างหาก คือ เป็นของพื้นที่แห่งยุคสมัย ไม่ใช่ทั้งหมดเพราะสิ่งที่ 'มา' แล้วจริงๆ มาชนิดที่เรียกว่า 'ไร้เสียง' แต่สะเทือนวงการ นั่นคือ Youtube Artist

ไม่มีใครสนใจอีกต่อไปว่าทิศทางดนตรีโลกจะเป็นไปทางไหน ใครจะเป็นผู้กุมชะตาว่า“อะไรอิน” หรือว่า “อะไรเอาท์” เพราะว่าเวลานี้ทุกคนล้วนมีสิทธิ์ทำให้ดนตรีแนวหนึ่งแนวใดฮิตขึ้นมาพร้อมๆ กันแบบหน้ากระดาน ที่เป็นอย่างนั้นเนื่องจาก Cyberia สืบทราบมาว่า ระหว่างที่วิทยาการอินเตอร์เน็ตได้กัดกร่อนอุตสาหกรรมดนตรีทั่วโลกให้ประสบปัญหาขาดทุนแล้วขาดทุนเล่ามาเป็นเวลาแรมปี ด้วยการดาวน์โหลดเพลงแบบไม่เกรงใจศิลปิน  การเกิดขึ้นของชุมชน Sharing Files ตลอดจนวัฒนธรรม iPod ที่กินลาม หรือที่หนักข้อที่สุดจนค่ายเพลงบางสำนักเรียกว่ามัจุราชคนสุดท้าย คือ Bittorrent

ถึงขั้นมีการประเมินกันว่าไม่มียุคไหนในประวัติศาสตร์ดนตรีอีกแล้วที่มลูค่าของเพลง 1 เพลงจะมีราคาตกต่ำเท่านี้มาก่อน เพราะผลลัพธ์ของศิลปะแขนงนี้มีค่าน้อยกว่า 1 ดอลลาร์ กรณีนี้ทำการศึกษาโดย Radiohead

หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้ที่ทุกฝ่ายลงความเห็นว่าอินเตอร์เน็ตเป็นผู้ร้ายของวงการเพลงในทุกข้อกล่าวหา 

คดีนี้จวนจะถึงที่สุดอยู่แล้ว 

แต่จู่ๆ...ในไซเบอร์สเปซก็มีพยานปากสำคัญโผล่ขึ้นมา เธอเป็นสาวสวยจากนิวยอร์กวัย 25
กล่าวกันว่าทั้งคำให้การและหลักฐานของมาเรียทำให้รูปคดีนี้เปลี่ยนไปจากหน้ามือเป็นหลังมือ

เมื่อเธอพูดและทำในสิ่งที่เราไม่เคยได้ยินมาก่อน นั่นคือ

“ไม่คิดบ้างหรือค่ะว่าในทางตรงกันข้ามอินเตอร์เน็ตทำให้ต้นทุนการเป็นศิลปินในยุคนี้แทบจะเป็นศูนย์ เรา(ค่ายเพลง)เสียผลงานเพลงไปไม่น้อย แต่อีกไม่นานอินเตอร์เน็ตก็จะคืนศิลปินกลับมาเป็นจำนวนมาก”

มาเรีย ดิกบี้ (Marie Digby) สาวน้อยมหัศจรรย์คนล่าสุดของวงการ กล่าวประโยคนี้ไว้เหมือนเธอกำลังขึ้นย่อหน้าใหม่ให้ Music Industrial ทั่วโลกได้ตาสว่าง ! 

ย้อนกลับไป 2 ปีที่แล้ว มาเรียก็เป็นผู้หญิงคนหนึ่งที่รักการร้องเพลงเป็นชีวิตจิตใจ เธอซ้อมร้องเพลงกับกีตาร์และเปียโนวันละหลายชั่วโมง เพื่อหาคำแนะนำที่ดีมาเรียจึงทดลองโพสต์คลิปวิดีโอ(ที่ถ่ายขณะเธอเล่นกีตาร์ในห้องนอน)ขึ้นบน Youtube 

เธอทำอย่างนี้สัปดาห์ละหนึ่งเพลง เพียงไม่กี่เดือนก็กลายเป็นเจ้าแม่เพลงคัฟเวอร์ในยูทูบ แม้ว่ามาเรียจะเลือกร้องเพลงศิลปินที่เธอชื่นชอบไว้หลายคน แต่ว่าเธอก็ได้ดีไซน์การร้องใหม่ๆ ให้ต่างออกไปจาก Original ในขณะที่มาเรียค่อยๆ ถักทอประสบการณ์อยู่หน้าคอมพ์ เธอก็เริ่มมีแฟนคลับติดตามผลงาน 

จนแล้วจนรอดหวยก็มาออกมาที่เพลง “Umbralla” ของ Rihanna ที่มาเรีย ดิกบี้นำเพลงนี้มาคัฟเวอร์ใหม่เป็นอะคูสติกเวอร์ชั่น จากเพลงแดนซ์ระดับมวลชน  Umbrella ก็กลายเป็นเพลง Easy Listening ขั้นเทพด้วยเสียงกีตาร์ใส ๆ เสียงร้องนุ่มๆ  

ว่ากันว่า Umbrella เวอร์ชั่นที่ผู้หญิงโนเนมคนนี้ร้องไว้ใน Youtube กลายเป็นเวอร์ชั่นที่มีคนตามหามากที่สุด ด้วยความแตกต่างที่ลงตัวมันคือ “ร่ม” คันที่สวยที่สุดตั้งแต่มี Umbrella มา

พิสูจน์ได้จากยอดคอมเม้นต์ที่บานปลายไปถึงสองหมื่นกว่าหน้า จำนวนผู้คลิกชมพุ่งทะลุ 6.7 ล้านครั้ง ! เป็นไปได้ว่ามาเรียร้องเพลงนี้จนริฮานน่าอยากรู้จักเป็นการส่วนตัว เพราะคลิปบ้านๆ ของเธอดันมียอดผู้ชมสูงกว่า

มิวสิควิดีโอแสตนดาร์ดของริฮานน่าเสียอีก 

จากปรากฏการณ์นี้...ทำให้ค่ายเพลงอดรนทนไม่ไหว รีบควานหาตัวมือสมัครเล่นรายนี้ถึงหน้าประตูบ้าน เพื่อทาบทามเธอเป็นศิลปินในสังกัด เมื่อรู้ประวัติก็ไม่ต้องคุยอะไรกันมาก มาเรีย ดิกบี้ เป็นลูกครึ่งญี่ปุ่น-ไอริช (คนละคนกับมาเรีย โอซาวา นะ555) เธอเคยเรียนวิชาเอกกีตาร์ที่มหาวิทยาลัย Berkeley หนึ่งปี ก่อนข้ามฟากไปหาประสบการณ์ที่สตูดิโอ Vivendi SA ประเทศฝรั่งเศสในฐานะนักร้องไกด์ แว่วเสียงของเธอเคยถูกรวมไว้ในอัลบั้มที่อัดเสียงโดย Disney Hollywood Records บทเรียนหนึ่งของการเดินทางไกลครั้งนั้นสอนมาเรียว่า อุตสาหกรรมเพลงเห็นเธอ (นักร้องไกด์) เป็นเพียงแรงงานราคาถูก ลงแรงลงใจไปเป็น 100 ได้กลับไม่ถึง 10 

แม้ว่าเพื่อนร่วมรุ่นของเธอหลายคน ยังเลือกเส้นทางล่าฝันกันต่อด้วยการนำเดโมไปหย่อนตามค่ายเพลงใหญ่อย่างล้มๆ แล้งๆ 

แต่มาเรียเลือกเฟดตัวมาแต่งเพลงอยู่บ้านและเลือกใช้ Youtube เป็นที่แสดงผลงานในฐานะมือสมัครเล่น ไม่คิดว่าโอกาสจะเดินทางมาถึงเธอเร็วกว่าที่คิดเช่นนี้

มาเรียเพิ่งวางขายอัลบั้มเต็มชื่อว่า “Unfold” เมื่อเดือนที่แล้ว เธอมีรสนิยมวิไลในการเลือกโปรดิวเซอร์มาเจียระไนผลงาน เพราะหนึ่งในนั้นมีชื่อของ Tom Rothrock (ผู้อยู่เบื้องหลังความสำเร็จของ James Blunt) เสียงตอบรับในงาน Pop-Rock ของมาเรียก็ดีเกินคาด มันดีจนนักวิจารณ์หลายสำนักในอเมริกาออกปากชมและฟันธงว่ามาเรียได้เขียนสูตรใหม่ให้วงการเพลงเราได้ตื่นเต้นกันอีกรอบเพราะว่า “ยุคนี้ คือ ยุคทองของนักดนตรีสมัครเล่นที่รู้จักใช้ Youtube และ Myspace เป็นบันไดสู่ความสำเร็จ ขณะนี้มีศิลปินอยู่หน้าจอคอมพิวเตอร์จำนวนมาก”

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Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, said in a response: “Consumers have no reason left to trust their cable company. This independent study confirms that Comcast is still blocking its customers from using popular applications — despite the FCC’s investigation and widespread public outrage. And worse, the harmful practice appears to be spreading through the marketplace.”

After being pressured by the press and thousands of upset customers, Comcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers, (somewhere in the future) and promised to invest in its network capacity. For the time being the company will continue to throttle BitTorrent users.

We have asked the FCC for a response, but they had not yet responded at time of going to press.

I have Comcast and hate them. Their TV sucks, they can't fix some of my HD channels (which really makes my new Samsung LN46A650 angry) and I know for a fact they throttle my BitTorrent traffic. As soon as I get a new place, I'm done with them if I have any say in the matter at all.

Link

(via DF)

The University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, says Bell has engaged in the practice without customer consent, has failed to show that it even suffers from network congestion, and has violated Canada’s privacy law – the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in doing so.

In a complaint to Canada’s privacy commissioner, CIPPIC said it was concerned other large Canadian ISPs were doing the same. In a statement (PDF), the group said:

Bell claims it is respecting the privacy of ISP subscribers, but has refused to describe just what its deep packet inspection of subscribers’ activities really uncovers. “Millions of Canadians use the Internet every day,” said Philippa Lawson, Executive Director of the Clinic. “How can they know if their privacy is being respected, if Bell won’t disclose what it is actually doing?”

There is evidence that other large ISPs such as Rogers, Shaw, and Cogeco may be engaging in similar practices, said Lawson. “Our complaint focuses on Bell, but we are asking the Commissioner to investigate all ISPs who engage in traffic-shaping practices.”

“Canada has privacy legislation that Bell and other ISPs must follow,” Ms. Lawson pointed out. “We’re asking the Privacy Commissioner to investigate just what Bell’s use of deep packet inspection involves. Canadians have a right to know who is looking over their shoulders, and why.”

Bell’s retort: “Bell respects the privacy of our customers. We are in compliance with our privacy obligations.”
Bell admitted the practice in March 2008.

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The Max Planck Institute is using a Java applet that simulates BitTorrent uploads to detect manipulations, such as the forged reset messages used by Comcast to end P2P transmissions. The applet doesn't test for throttling, meaning ISPs that simply slow down transfers and prioritize other types of traffic aren't detected, but the institute is working on proper ways to detect these types of interferences as well.

The current tests also found cases of BitTorrent blocking at seven other U.S. cable ISPs, but Max Planck researcher Krishna Gummadi told the AP that those results weren't conclusive. His team didn't find any signs of interference from DSL providers.

Regular NewTeevee readers shouldn't be too surprised by these findings. We reported back in February that virtually all major U.S. cable ISPs have provisions in their Terms of Service that allow them to use Comcast-style BitTorrent blocking. Cox, for example, tells its subscribers that it might engage in "traffic prioritization and protocol filtering." The cable company's subscriber agreement also contains another red flag: "You expressly accept that such action on the part of Cox may affect the performance of the Service."

The new findings include another interesting tidbit that could give Network Neutrality advocates new ammunition. Comcast has in the past defended its measures stating that it would only interfere with BitTorrent to minimize network congestion. That's not true, according to the German researchers. They found instances of blocking around the clock and on every day of the week on the networks of both Comcast and Cox.

Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott used these findings to once again call for Net Neutrality legislation. "This research proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that consumers, Congress and the FCC must urgently pursue the complaints against network providers," said Scott. "Consumers have no reason left to trust their cable company."

Vira e mexe o Peer-to-Peer (P2P - ponto-a-ponto) está em evidência na mídia. E sempre com um ar de criminalidade quase comparável a falsidade ideológica, estelionato e afins. Trabalho muito bem feito pelos órgãos que defendem os "direitos autorais dos artistas" (tá! conta outra, vai), já que nos últimos meses vimos trackers famosos e que vão deixar saudades para alguns (nunca me deram convites pra eles. :cry: ) sendo fechados, gente sendo processada, servidores Ed2k dizendo adeus e mais gente sendo processada. Pois é... algumas redes até correm o risco de morrerem se as coisas continuarem assim. Vou sentir saudades.  E já repararam que praticamente 100% desses órgãos são formados pelas grandes gravadoras que ainda estão presas à formatos antigos de produção e acham que artista bom é artista que gera milhões? Que raramente você vê pequenas gravadoras reclamando das redes P2P, sendo que elas sofrem ou sofreriam muito mais do que as grandes? Pense que elas vendem menos, tem menos divulgação (o que é relativamente resolvido com essas redes de compartihamento), menos artistas.

Já até ouvi que quem ama o cinema não deveria usar P2P. Mas discordo inteiramente.  Sim. Eu apoio o P2P. Me chamem de pirateiro, me chamem de ladrão, me chamem do que quiser. Só que não vou mentir: graças a essas diversas redes conheci diferentes bandas (das quais acabei comprando alguns se não todos os albuns, DVDs, ingressos de shows, merchs), assisti filmes que nunca poderia, séries de desenhos antigas que nunca poderia ter oportunidade, e por aí vai. E aí, meus amigos, que acho que as redes de compatilhamento tem seu mérito.

Talvez eu faça parte de um grupo mínimo que usa essas redes para fins benéficos, se assim posso dizer. Ao contário da maioria não estou nem um pouco interessado em TELE-SYNCS e companhia. RIPs das séries do momento, 0-day dos softwares mais usados, os últimos hits dos artistas mais pops e coisas do gênero. O que procuro em redes P2P são filmes que não posso ver por aqui - nem em VHS, nem em DVD. Os últimos filmes que suguei na mula foram Soylent Green (No Mundo de 2020 - RIchard Fleischer), Eraserhead (David Lynch), Naked Lunch (esqueci o nome em português - David Cronenberg), The King of Kong - Fistful of Quarters, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (A Princesa e o Guerreiro). Música, então, fica até complicado listar tantas coisas que seriam praticamente impossíveis de se encontrar por aqui. Okay! Eu poderia comprar DVDs importados, gastar rios de dinheiros que não tenho, sempre dando tiros no escuro - principalmente com músicas.

Não quero convencer ninguém de que P2P é bom e você deve usar. Até poderia, mas não tenho porquê. Só que existem utilidades além de dar uma de espertinho assistindo uma filmagem tosca da tela do cinema com a última novidade. E é por isso que gosto tanto de P2P.

Grande Abraço!

Links:

Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer - No Mundo de 2020: www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/
Eraserhead, David Lynch:  www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/
Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/
The King of Kong - A fistful of Quarters: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
Der krieger und die Kaiserin, Tom Tykwer - A princesa e o guerreiro: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203632/

(vou ficar devendo links pra notícias de P2P... já enrolei demais aqui no trabalho. hehe!)

PS.: Rapidshare, Easyshare, Megaupload e companhia *não* são P2P! E por favor, parem de abusar desses serviços. Estou cansado de ler mensagens que fui filtrado porque acabaram os slots para o meu país.

The first quote from Coelho is a gem. But I wonder about the extent to which new writers who are not (yet) novelists can take advantage of this approach, or adapt similarly content-sharing techniques, when they lack both a large existing fanbase and an already-popular vehicle via which to publicise their work.

My feeling is that it is too early for people in my position, with no public profile whatsoever, though the threshold might not be too high. In any case, thanks for sharing, Pirate Coelho!

1. My personal favorite is a private music torrent tracker called Waffles. It is by far, and without question the best music tracker I've come across, after the unfortunate demise of OiNK.me.uk. Because of this, it is near impossible to get an invites. If you would like one, I currently have a few, and can possibly "hook you up." However, let me warn you, it is not a leecher friendly place. Keeping a decent ratio is not as easy as just leaving your torrenting application open. In fact, I have had to upload 5 albums just to stay at a 1.00 ratio.
Waffles
Slyck's BitTorrent Guide

2. The second choice is to scour public FTP servers. Search Warez sites like Wtalk, Needz.org, and the like to find nice ones. If your target album is a more well-known artist, you can probably find it on one of the FTP servers listed here.
Filesearch.ru Top 100 FTP servers

3. Another possible choice is to search on Warez forums. Often, they have "scene" releases of albums. Wtalk has a fantastic audio library. The downside is that most of these albums are hosted on Rapidshare.com, and without a premium account, this can be a hassle.

4. My final choice is to use your ISP's newsgroups. This is by far the fastest, but unless you are willing to pay for bandwith, you cannot get more than a few gigs a month. Adelphia SoCal and Time Warner both offer 1 gigabyte per month. Slyck.com has a great tutorial for getting started with newsgroups. On Adelphia's servers, most underground albums were in alt.bin.music, but its likely there were other places that I never found. Recently, Time Warner removed their newsgroup servers, and now require a monthly fee. I have BT, so I had to turn them down.
Slyck's Newsgroup Guide

Well, that's my final list. I have found every album I have ever honestly wanted from these places. Remember to support the artist if you like the CD. I'm personally a big opponent of DRM and business practices of the record companies. In my anti-authoritative rage, I have found that many bands have a website with a Paypal "Donate Now" button. This is a fantastic way to skip the middle-man and go straight to the artist.

Also, you may have noticed that I didn't list Kazaa or Limewire. I have found that P2P networks are among the most dangerous places on the Internet. You can find some unusual things there, and it has the highest probability of downloading a dangerous file, and it is where many of the RIAA cases you hear about on the news begin. I'm not saying that if you use it, you will get a virus or be sued, but why take the risk in the first place? If you must use P2P, I recommend Overnet/Edonkey2000, as I appreciate the ed2k and overnet linking system, as well as the file download verification with my unusual personality as a computer hypochondriac who visits irreputable sites on many occasions (If you catch my drift). But heed my warning, avoid P2P networks if at all possible.

I'll probably go into more depth with these in the future.

This is something we are ultimately planning towards with our startup. TV and film services on the desktop will never make any real money as most people aren't prepared to sit at their computer to watch TV. Now I know what you are thinking 'I watch TV on my computer all the time', my point is that you are not 'most people'. First of all you are reading a technology blog, secondly to get your desktop TV you are willing to monkey around with uTorrent, Mininova, Bitmetv or whatever which most people are not prepared to do. They just want to point a remote at their TV and go.

At the moment we are in the (very) early days but the destination is increasingly clear: smart STBs. Until Toshiba folded recently there was a great debate over whether HD DVD or Blu Ray would triumph, my prediction is they will both lose. This situation is reminiscent of the mid-nineties when a debate raged over what would replace the CD, the two contenders were DAT by Philips and MiniDisc by Sony. Ten years later who has either? Hard disk based players came along, Steve Jobs spotted the trend and the rest is history.

Smart companies like Apple are not even involved in the next-gen DVD market, focusing instead on smart STBs. That said the iPod prospered long before the iTunes Store because of the explosion of filesharing when Napster launched in 1999. The iPod arrived two years later and was built to capitalise on this content explosion. This time Apple is building the device and tying it to the store. The problem with this approach is that people generally won't pay $1.99 per episode (or more in HBO's case) for content they can record to their STBs or get from Mininova for nothing.

To me a far more interesting development is BitTorrent's move into STB software and the emergence of the Myka STB. This is the future. I expect over the next few years for something similar to happen with video as did with music. In the early days content owners will be determined to use DRM to tie down consumers before realising there is no future in restricted services and opening up. It will need a compelling argument for content owners to do this - in particular how any service can beat piracy. That's where we come in.

Fidelity: accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal

At many places, you have to pay for Wi-Fi. Paying for Wi-Fi. That is such a foreign concept to me. It's almost like paying for air. Our society is slowly turning into a gift society, or perhaps already has. A gift society is one where money does not exist, it relies on people giving gifts to other people to keep the society going. One where services are exchanged, instead of money or goods. Then again, some services have become goods. People, especially younger people have found that sharing things is so much easier than buying things. I'm not going to condone the stealing or downloading of pirated software in this blog, but I will say that there's a reason that it has become so popular. And there's also a reason that Nine Inch Nails made so much money off of their "free" album.

We as people are an inherently stingy bunch. Whenever we can get something for free, we snatch it up. Which is why advertisers make it sound like they're giving you money whenever there is a sale. I take that back, we are stingy unless the price is right. some people, when they go to a store, they will gladly pay $60 for a video game. Others wait until it becomes a "greatest hit" and it is then $20. But what if merchants allowed us to set our own prices for things. Of course, they would be allowed to set a base price, but the customer would be allowed to pay what they think it is worth.

The idea that you pay what you think something is worth has worked great for software. Look at the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) movement. If you go to sourceforge.net, you can see over 100,000 open source projects. You might be wondering why anybody would want to go open source. There are a few reasons that people use open source software. One reason is the price, open source software is free as in, "I'm going to give this to you." The open source software that's not free is usually very inexpensive. The second reason is that you are free to do whatever you want with the software. If you want to look at the code for the software, and take a small chunk of it to put into your own software, then you are free to, as long as your software is open source. Another reason is the sheer amount of support for open source software. While, it may not always be as quick as dealing with a large corporation. You will almost always get an answer from somebody that knows what they're talking about. In the open source community, people help other people, because that's what they love to do. In a large corporation, people help other people because that's what they're paid to do.

The whole mindset of open source software is sharing. I share something with you, you share something with me, and we're all happy. If all software was open source, we wouldn't have software piracy. If Adobe Photoshop was open source, there would be hundreds of versions of Photoshop floating around the Internet customized for your specific needs.

People, like sharing, this has been proven of the past 10 years with the famous politician, that we all know and love, inventing the Internet. There's a good reason that the popularity of Napster, Kazaa, iMesh, Limewire, Bittorrent, and other peer to peer networks exploded. You can get any movie made in the last 30 years on the Internet for free now; many of them in less than 2 hours. If people didn't want to share, they wouldn't be sharing. If people wanted to pay for things, they would be paying for things. Businesses, such as Apple and Amazon, finally caught on the Internet is a viable means to sell things. But many businesses haven't realized that this big thing called the Internet exists, have just recently realized that the Internet exists, or can't afford to realize that the Internet exists.

For being the ones that control the world, big businesses move very slowly and then complain that the users/consumers are the ones that control the world. Sure, we don't have all of the money that they have, but we do have more power than we realize. When the consumers start to use their power to change the economy, maybe big business will listen.

Descargar: BitTorrent 6.0.3

But what is deep packet inspection? It a process that allows for the identification and characterisation of packets (internet traffic) by content and purpose. It can distinguish between innocuous HTTP, FTP, VoIP and slightly less liked high bandwidth traffic like Bittorrent (and other P2P protocols) as well as streaming. Armed with this information, ISPs or Internet backbones could then opt to throttle bandwidth to services or users in real time based on time of the day, the services they are using or simply how much they are paying.

Whilst throttling high bandwidth services such as file sharing and movie streaming might seem like a good idea, this brings us to the idea of net neutrality. Net neutrality is a principle in which ISPs and Top Tier providers can opt to slow or block specific services or websites based on their bandwidth usage or any criterion of their choosing. Take for example Skype, if an ISP decided Skype was taking up too much bandwidth, or worse, was competing with their telephony services with its VoIP serice, it could opt to slow the traffic an end user (you or I) has with Skype's service. This could restrict the application or usability of Skype to a point where it might no longer be functionally or financially viable. The ISP or provider could then ask Skype to pay a premium for it's bandwidth to be restored. It works the other way as well, lets say there was another VoIP company who decided it wanted to have the fastest bandwidth / lowest latency (compared to other VoIP providers) to an ISP's users, it could pay the ISP to prioritise it's packets over others. As you can see the scales of services / content on the Internet, once promoted as a source for free and equal speech and services, becomes tipped in the favour of corporations stifling both creativity and innovation.

Throttling is not the answer to the long term (or even short term) bandwidth explosion the Internet has seen in recent years (thank you youtube :P ) and at $800,000 per machine, I can't help wondering if the money would be better spent upgrading existing capacities.

UPDATE: I just read another related article which touched on something I had not considered. Privacy. Whilst most information about a packet can be gleaned from the routing header, there is nothing to stop this technology literally parsing Gbps of traffic for any (and all) information at all which could be store for later examination. The only limitation would be hard drive space, 80Gbps is 10Gb of data every second which would fill up a Petabyte (Pb) of storage every 28 hours. The only limit would be the computational power and storage available to the ISP/backbone operator.

Having an addictive personality doesn't help anything--because once you get locked into a serious movie collection the tendency is to push it as far as you can...Film noir movies led me into it, making p2p a vicious habit for me, a time-consuming, all-obsessive craze to obtain old BBC rockumentaries, Nordic torrents about the Luftwaffe, and lay my digital hands on every last movie made by Shohei Imamura. My obsession with downloading ended only after I got the entire Film Noir category at MiniNova--just about the time when Gparted (stupid fucking ubuntu partition editor) screwed me over and wiped the whole contents of my 320gb (how was I supposed to remember all those dos commands?). Of course, I went and filled the drive back up again and even bought an extra 500gb to store pr0n on, but then that crashed too and I gave up on this ridiculous quest for the ideal film and/or pr0n collection and I recommend you do the same if you're actually strong enough. In what follows I list but a handful of the hazards of download addiction (DLA):

- endless purchase of hard drives accompanied by permanent file chaos wherein nothing is findable: -$$ + disorder = wtf? (You're probably better off burning most of the crap to DVDs and then deleting it).

- risk of infection from trojans, etc. viruses (esp. Chinese .avi films) and countless paranoid delusions about them dirty hack0rz, the RIAA, or soem other fascist institutions like the Homeland Security Police, the Chinese spy network, etc. (use encryption and update always)

- obsession with title strings, numeral strings, and subject headings (specifically numbered episodes of anime titles like "Bleach episodes 1-62 by [Lunar] and [Dattebayo]:" Not as bad as paranoia but equally stupid (too bad we can't have usenet binaries in TW).

- waste of massive amounts of time trying to "manage your downloads": let's see, while I'm away should I give Akira Fubuki's School Days vol. 9 first DL priority or let A Touch of Zen have top spot for awhile? Right, and what should I take out of the seed queue today?" Nearly as mindless as channel-surfing, I now think.

For these and other reasons, I've formally sworn off illegal and other types of downloads for the near future. I am trying to reform myself into a good cyber-citizen and a decent representative of an healthy asian male interenets. Besides, there's no reason I can't go and buy the stuff I want/need.

My next ordeal goal is to imitate the inimitable trane and go on a comment fast for a couple of months, in honor of the Beijing Genocide Olympics. Yeah, that's right, let's just see if all you faux internet entities can break my heavy meditations while this is going down. I am a giant red pillar of manly strengths:

N0574 Comment Fast to Begin at [[13:00 hrs Taipei Standard Time, 05/13/2008]].

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In diesem Zusammenhang passt auch der Vortrag Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks von Richard Stallman hier her.

Pesce konzentriert sich eher auf die wirtschaftlichen und technsichen Aspekte von File-Sharing aus der Sicht der Produzenten und Werbetreibenden, während Stallman auf die idealistischen und ethischen Aspekte aus der Sicht der User eingeht.

Abrimos Añadir y Eliminar Aplicaciones

Ponemos en buscar: Bittorrent, marcamos y aplicamos

Tienes tres formas para arrancar el programa con un .torrent

1º Forma.- Vamos a http://torrent-finder.com

y ponemos en buscar Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, Sigue las capturas:

2º Forma.- Vas donde esta ese torrent,

lo bajas al Escritorio, pulsa sobre el, con el botón derecho del ratón y haces clic sobre Abrir con Bittorrent Download client

3º Foma.- Clic Aplicaciones / Internet / Bittorrent Download client

Buscamos el archivo .torrent y pulsamos Abrir

De las tres formas te pide donde guardar el archivo y lo guardas donde tu quieras.

Legal firm Davenport Lyons sent the demand to one PC Pro reader, after claiming it had "forensic computer analysis" that shows he downloaded the game Two Worlds using BitTorrent. Davenport Lyons is acting on the behalf of German games distributor Zuxxez, which last year employed the firm to target file sharers.

The PC Pro reader was given no prior warning to stop file sharing, unlike the usual "three strikes and you're out" approach adopted by the music industry, which gives users two warnings to stop sharing before legal proceedings are instigated.

The legal demand claims that "given the extent of the damage that file sharing is causing to our client's business, our client is left with no option but to adopt a policy of enforcing its rights in an attempt to stem the wholesale misappropriation of its property." (link)