A Copyfighter’s Musings

Certainly not the first to use P2P as a marketing tool and to reduce bandwidth costs, but I feel like pointing it out as a prelude to the Grokster appeal hearing, which will happen next Tuesday.  I’ll have a bigger prelude in soon.  This one is a nice mix of the recent past with the present and future - once again, Michael Robertson gets it:

“Peer-to-peer (P2P) programs are for people who like to take advantage of the best technology available to them. Thanks to direct connections and multiple download sources, you can now download large files in a small fraction of the time it would take to get them from anywhere else. If you downloaded a file called LindowsLive-4.5.2xx.iso from a P2P, this is NOT illegal, and federal agents won’t be knocking down your door for doing so.”

Filed by Derek Slater at 11:06 pm under General news