Something I’m reading for work…
Posted at 4:49pm on Thursday, May 13th, 2004…finally makes it to offmessage. Personally I’ve been very slow to pick this one up (given it was written in November 2002), but one of the guys I work with at EMI sent me this… The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution. An incredibly well thought out and argued paper from 4 researchers at Microsoft discussing the impact of P2P networks and the way they will mutate and affect content owners in the future. Its dismissal of DRM is particularly refreshing. From the conclusion:
In short, if you are competing with the darknet, you must compete on the darknet�s own terms: that is convenience and low cost rather than additional security.
Well worth a spare 15 minutes.
