Comments on: The future of music and the solution to piracy: my prediction http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/ Paul Betts's personal website / blog / what-have-you Wed, 26 May 2010 09:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Paul Betts http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/comment-page-1/#comment-4358 Paul Betts Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:26:10 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/#comment-4358 @Peter: Yep, that's basically how Skype and Joost work - they use P2P concepts to deliver phone calls and TV, respectively. @Peter: Yep, that’s basically how Skype and Joost work – they use P2P concepts to deliver phone calls and TV, respectively.

]]> By: Peter Dietz http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/comment-page-1/#comment-4309 Peter Dietz Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:15:23 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/#comment-4309 I recently saw some new service that offers a demand driven pricing method. Brand news songs and the unpopular come out dirt cheap, and popularity and demand raises the price. - Centralized content that gets pulled as needed, either at a membership cost, market value of item, or per bandwidth used that has that zing of instantanious access would naturally show its strength over the download, transfer, and carry method. The next thing could be in the delivery network. Imagine so much of a certain same content being pulled on this network. Say it be a hot youtube video of the I35W bridge collapsing, of miners in Utah, or one of my Mariah Carey favorites. 100,000 mobiles in the same metropolitan area each make 100,000 downloads from the youtube video server. Each filling up the capacity of the network by having the same chunks of data whir past us 100,000 times. How about a mobile diffuser service that can combine concurrent streams of the same data into a psuedo multicast that makes the overall speed transfer more effective by taking repeated bandwidth out of the network. Perhaps even having a reward system where a mobile that has the video cached in its memory can short range broadcast it to a neighboring device for some type of credit with the broadcasting servers. Something akin to your sharing ratio in p2p, that goes into taking that "its better to give than to receive" mentallity into the picture. I recently saw some new service that offers a demand driven pricing method. Brand news songs and the unpopular come out dirt cheap, and popularity and demand raises the price.
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Centralized content that gets pulled as needed, either at a membership cost, market value of item, or per bandwidth used that has that zing of instantanious access would naturally show its strength over the download, transfer, and carry method.

The next thing could be in the delivery network. Imagine so much of a certain same content being pulled on this network. Say it be a hot youtube video of the I35W bridge collapsing, of miners in Utah, or one of my Mariah Carey favorites. 100,000 mobiles in the same metropolitan area each make 100,000 downloads from the youtube video server. Each filling up the capacity of the network by having the same chunks of data whir past us 100,000 times.

How about a mobile diffuser service that can combine concurrent streams of the same data into a psuedo multicast that makes the overall speed transfer more effective by taking repeated bandwidth out of the network. Perhaps even having a reward system where a mobile that has the video cached in its memory can short range broadcast it to a neighboring device for some type of credit with the broadcasting servers.

Something akin to your sharing ratio in p2p, that goes into taking that “its better to give than to receive” mentallity into the picture.

]]> By: marmot http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/comment-page-1/#comment-4162 marmot Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:55:27 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/#comment-4162 You're right of course. The process of downloading music through a p2p service is less than elegant. Having a subscription service with access to any and all the music you want where ever you are, like you suggest, is a far better and more useful experience. But I was thinking more of download services from which you're actually purchasing and downloading music. Some of these are still subscription based (like emusic), but the "subscription" is basically just a way to enforce a minimum number of song purchases. I'm willing to pay for my music. I just don't want to commit x dollars a year to it. I also want to own my copy, not "rent" it. You’re right of course. The process of downloading music through a p2p service is less than elegant. Having a subscription service with access to any and all the music you want where ever you are, like you suggest, is a far better and more useful experience.

But I was thinking more of download services from which you’re actually purchasing and downloading music. Some of these are still subscription based (like emusic), but the “subscription” is basically just a way to enforce a minimum number of song purchases.

I’m willing to pay for my music. I just don’t want to commit x dollars a year to it. I also want to own my copy, not “rent” it.

]]> By: Paul Betts http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/comment-page-1/#comment-4073 Paul Betts Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:14:58 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/#comment-4073 For people who can't afford the better solution (or who are just cheap), you're right - they'll stick with downloading. But the problem is, currently using DRMed music is a crappier experience than using downloaded MP3s - I can do whatever I want with the latter, and the former is usually broken or limited. But if you make paying the fee <i>have more features</i> than downloading, a lot of people won't care, if you can call up any album ever published on-the-fly, while you're sitting on the bus. That doesn't even compare to the current system of "find it on Bittorrent, wait for it to download, connect player to PC, hit sync. <i>then</i> go" For people who can’t afford the better solution (or who are just cheap), you’re right – they’ll stick with downloading. But the problem is, currently using DRMed music is a crappier experience than using downloaded MP3s – I can do whatever I want with the latter, and the former is usually broken or limited.

But if you make paying the fee have more features than downloading, a lot of people won’t care, if you can call up any album ever published on-the-fly, while you’re sitting on the bus. That doesn’t even compare to the current system of “find it on Bittorrent, wait for it to download, connect player to PC, hit sync. then go”

]]> By: resurrectionjoe http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/comment-page-1/#comment-4072 resurrectionjoe Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:29:56 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/#comment-4072 good point, marmot. good point, marmot.

]]> By: marmot http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/comment-page-1/#comment-4066 marmot Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:14:22 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/08/01/the-future-of-music-and-the-solution-to-piracy-my-prediction/#comment-4066 Because then you don't have to pay a monthly fee Because then you don’t have to pay a monthly fee

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