evolution in action (Re: Napster)

[John R T Brazier]

I'm glad that you are so sanguine in the face of new combinations of
technologies such as Palladium and the legal underpinnings that they co-opt
or depend on. However, I hope you are right: the wooden goddess Pallas (the
origin of Palladium) was the protectress of Troy. I await in expectation
that she will protect Microsoft (and its collaborators) as well as she did
that ancient city.

TTFN

John B

-----Original Message-----
From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
[mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Adam Back
Sent: 04 September 2002 23:36
To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject: Re: evolution in action (Re: Napster)


While clearly the content distribution industry (RIAA, MPAA etc) would
_like_ to suppress file sharing, I think my statistics demonstrate
that in fact they have failed.  In fact I would say the content
distribution lobby has lost the fight.

The current day file trading is orders of magnitude larger than during
Napsters heyday.  The volume is still growing rapidly.

This is why I said Napsters death was evolution and necessary.
Distributed technologies are hard to suppress.  Napsters evolutionary
characteristic which resulted in it's removal from the file sharing
gene pool was it's architecture with centralised control.

The same suppression techniques will not work with many of the
replacement technologies.

Adam

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:51:51PM +0100, John R T Brazier wrote:
> The point is not the technology - it's the idea which is being suppressed.
>
> JB