[73787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Fri Sep 3 06:19:27 2004
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
"Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:16:03 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Michel Py wrote:
> In other words: as of today a large part of the bandwidth is allocated
> to building everyone's collection of files. This might gradually
> change to become bandwidth being used only for incremental updates as
> huge local file libraries become common place.
But this possible assumes that production of new media will either slow or
stay at a constant rate. The never-yet-realised side effect of all this
distribution capacity is that possible many more artists will have access to
the listeners / viewers and in more narrow niches than the existing system
allows. And that may be the real nightmare for the existing vested-interest
groups.
Peter
