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Originally Posted by mobius.media  Yes, but it will be a shrinking population as more sites go down.
Torrent sites are under siege left, right, and center. Yet no decent new protocol has emerged. There has actually been no meaningful progress in p2p technology since 2003 when torrents started. Freenet's probably the best that's come up, but it's abysmal and always will be for reasons that can't be changed.
You must have a lot of faith. |
Yes, I do have a lot of faith. The pirates are the "consumers". The costumers. The people that will listen to whatever music artists put out there.
The P2P crowd is NOT shrinking. Each day there are more people downloading from torrents. Hell, i've been asked to install Vuze by several people (I didn't, by the way), because even the most computer illiterate person knows that there is music at the reach of a click on their computers. And why? They saw a site called Pirate Bay on the news...
It's something that we all have to realise: the habits have changed, and ALL the trials and all the convictions in the world won't change the way people want to have access to culture. I'll say it once more: it's the industry that has to find a way to get revenue from this form of distribution. All they need is a system to track downloads (not that hard), and some entity to analise and distribute revenues among the artists.
And even if all the file sharing fails, there are still millions of mp3 players, external hard drives and flash disks to distribute content. And, in this way, there is no control AT ALL.