Comments on: Survey: Movie-swapping up; Kazaa down

CacheLogic says BitTorrent is the new king of peer-to-peer networks. Hollywood's not happy.

Stats for Gnutella?

I miss information on how Gnutella changed.

Else I like the article.

[itanalyst]

What about wife swapping?

I heard that was way up over previous years...is MPAA or RIAA going to do something about that?

why is it such a big deal?

I dont download movies off the internet simply because the quality isnt there, and my ISP logges my bandwith, and I do not wish to pay more.

also if I did donwload movies it would be movies I dont want to waste 8.50 seeing on the big screen i.e. Crappy movies

But more to the point, why is it the music and movie buisness think they can get a free right when it comes to copyrighted material?

The software community has been getting hit with Piracy for as long as it existed, yet they still manage to pump out great programs. They copyright protect their software thats why. Why is it, Movie companies feel they have to sue us and whatnot for something they brought on themselves?

My point is, Software companies spend millions on anti-Piracy, and what does the music and movie companies spend? 0 nada nilch

once they spend a little and show to me they need our money (music and movie stars are getting more now then ever before!) I will not bother to waste my time fighting for them.

[John Kuzak]

spend millions on anti-Piracy

http://www.analogstereo.com/dodge_dynasty_owners_manual.htm

[GreatInca]

Go Emule! Emule Rocks! Bittorent only good for large Warez & DVD Movies.

Kazaa sux. Virii, spam, leechers that don't upload, fakes everywhere, and no ip filtering either (why only dumb people get sued). Bittorent don't filter and is very trackable, and is not searchable (have to go to porn infested warez sites and get bittorrent links), worse than kazza but at least great for faaast download of big warez and moviez.

Emule great for legal and smeilegal (illeagle on public media but still cost money to get or the content itself shows illeagle act or might even be banned classified in a country or two), internat trash (porn, nuke explosions, aliens, ogrish...), book piracy, and of course movie piracy - mostly vcd'd DVD movies. Unfortunaly kazaa better for MP3s but that is sshifting over to Emule more and more.

Btw the main reason the decline on kazaa is because of sharman battling with kazaa lite which is a hack anyway. Emule is truely free and naturally adware and spyware free, and doesn't trash down your cpu either. Gnutella is a hacked up inadequate protocal. Overnet & KAD work better.

[GreatInca]

Get Emule here.

http://www.emule-project.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/

Open source software. Nobody sueing this stuff out of existence. Naturally Adware and Spyware free too! No Crack or money needed!

ShareReactor should've been open source.

Emule is really great for RARE files (especially RPG books usually on asian donkey servers). Emule far better than kazaa for small warez (diskeeper, norton antivirus), ROMz, and cracks. Want an alien autopsy, public sex in the stadium, area 51 footage, taliban atrocities, nuke bomb explosions? Or all the AD&D & GURPS books or hard to find novels or science books? Emule the best source.

Save bittorant for full 4+gig DVDs, Visual Studio, and other Large warez of the like. Other stuff ain't worth the porn storms and fraud attempts you need go go through to get to the bittorant links.

[boughto]

10 petabytes = the 10 million gigabytes!

"a petabyte (10 million gigabytes) of data"
ummm. no!

Try TEN (10) petabytes: http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=cm&id=1396

FYI:
1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes = 1 million gigabytes

or if you like: 1 PB = 1 quadrillion bytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes :) - that's "10 to the power of 15", and not be confused with a pebibyte!

see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte