P2P will survive... and RE: [Air-l] Bebo warning

[Jochen Scholl]

Homero, all,

I am not surprised about No. 2 at all. It has been known (and used) as a
share lever in the software industry for a long time. It goes like this:

(1) Let them illegally copy and use the product
(2) Let them build up familiarity and custom over time
(3) Let them create documents, in fact, many documents
(4) Upgrade the software a few times with growing interdependencies between
the modules

After some time, you will see legal copies purchased from those users, and
the market share starts growing considerably since people have been
successfully locked in, even without acquiring legal copies in the first
place.

This is, of course, only partially applicable to the various music scenes.

Needless to say that the damage calculations presented by some software
vendor attorneys are outrageous and hypocritical.

There is a heck of a lot of benefit in those shadow copies and downloads for
the original producers.

Best,
Jochen


On 02/14/2005 3:18 PM, "Homero Gil de Zuniga" <hgildezuniga at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Derek and all,
> Two quick things, the first one is related to your last email and secondly,
> I would like to rise a question for those of you who are interested in the
> P2P topic.
> 
> 1. Unbelievable!! I just went through it as a curiosity making up my name
> and personal data and I reached the point that they require my "fictitious"
> email password for the email I gave them in order for them to inform me
> about my friends using Bebo from my email addresses:
> "Enter your Hotmail details below and we'll show you who's already using
> Bebo from your Hotmail Address Book"
> 
> Sounds pretty suspicious to me...
> 
> I tried to file the web site with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center but
> the page seemed to be down so... I'll try later. I hope it works...
> 
> 2. Talking about different issue, the other day I came across to a
> surprising empirical research
> (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_1/kretschmer).  According to it,
> authors (musicians) in UK and Germany are in fact BENEFITED from illegal
> distributions since they become more famous and ultimately earn more money
> from distinct sources, such as concerts, gigs, etc..
> It seems that P2P file transfer will never stop then...
> Any thoughts???
> Cheers everybody,
> HGZ
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Derek
> McMillan
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:43 PM
> To: air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] Bebo warning
> 
> I do not know whether www.bebo.com is a scam or not but it should be
> approached with caution. I have received two emails from impressionable
> acquaintances who have joined this project. When you log on to the
> website it asks you for innocuous details and then starts asking you for
> passwords such as yahoo passwords.
> Approach with caution!
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