Rogers explains ‘shaping' policy

E K ekg_ab-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 13 13:46:27 UTC 2008


--- Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> > Rogers owns a number of print and broadcast media outlets and has
> a
> > strategic relationship with Yahoo. They have every interest in
> > maintaining (and indeed enhancing) an asymmetric relationship
> between
> > "providers" and "consumers" of data. P2P -- even for
> > legitimately-copyable content -- blurs the distinction and scares
> the
> > crap out of them.
> >   
> If we divided the amount of legally copyable data by the amount of 
> copyrighted data distributed
> on P2P networks, I wonder how many decimal points we would need to
> go to 
> before the answer
> does not round down to zero?
> 

May be none. People use p2p because it does not need to set up and
maintain a server and also it is a give and take rather because the
content they distribute is copy-righted.

I believe P2P networks will be as relevant as they are in a world
with no copyright. Some materials (like songs and video) are better
distrbuted on p2p network (from efficiency point of view) even when
they are not copy-righted. 


EK






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