p2p takes another rough blow

Now this story of
Feds convicting warez pirate is not really good news for peer-to-peer file sharing ..

Truth is..many of us 'file-shares' have turned a blind eye to how these brand spacking new music albums, unreleased movies and games end up on these networks...Matter of fact I 've thought of fellows like the one convicted in the article as modern day Robin Hoods..Stealing from the FILTHY rich and giving to the needy hehe..

Music, Movies, Games are considered as peices of artwork. As unviable(such a word?) as it sounds, if these works were treated like art and not as cash cows by the industry, then money would flow directly to the artists, rather than mainly to the RIAA, MPAA, and Game publishers. Think of the open source movement ( a more interesting OS debate here) that is now stretching far beyond software and into the business enviroment. Given the very imperceptible line between software, digital music, music and games, I think that the authors of this artwork can benefit directly a great deal more from the public with the proliferation of public networks. The big fat middle man (a la RIAA, MPAA, Game publishers has become unneccesary in the way these digital artwoks are distributed.

We lose more and more rights as individual markets through Digital rights management. Essentially we are moving towards a time where we will be paying More for less value!!! I mean the best example occured going to buy a DVD player with my brother this weekend.. All the huge pricey brand name players have significant limitations to what they can play(Region coded etc) , whereas the no-frills alternative could play any format under the sun!!!! and it was like 1/5th of the price. I'm no business Guru, but the more people understand this, the less they will desire the sony's and the Bose's of ubiquitious technology. But hereing lies the problem. The big boys continue to flood the minds of the ignorant masses with marketting that will forever have them by the balls. There is now a very clear shift of this pay-more-for-less trend from hardware to digital content such asMicrosofts DRM software. Interesting to note that the companies who've endorsed the software already are mammoth monopolies.

looks like a not very user friendly future if it goes through..