I've noticed a lot of file sharing networks going legit lately, i actually don't see whats in it for them ? If they go legit whats the advantage the creators get ?
The advantage of not having the MPAA, RIAA, etc continually hassling them for illegal file sharing and trying to shut them down. The effort, time and expense must be incredible for them, not so much for organizations like the MPAA and RIAA.
Yes, many are constantly harassed, by many different companies, and I'm sad to say that one of my fav trackers, Demonoid, has started blocking Canadians because of this... However, some others, like TPB, are doing fine.
Ah yeah fair enough i guess they would hav just had enough of the constant harassment from the MPAA and RIAA. If everyones planning to go legit what do you think will be the future of file sharing ?
They can't ever stamp out filesharing and I think one day you'll see those organizations come to some understanding with it but that's years away. I thought Bram Cohen and his purchase of utorrent was heading that way but I guess not.
The future of filesharing? I think that there'll always be legit and nonlegit filesharing, unless they come to some sort of agreement, like mistycat said. An option is for people to continue doing what they're doing, but pay a monthly kind of "protection" fee, say $10, and not get in legal trouble for that kinda stuff. This is the same kind of thing that radio stations use to play music publicly, and the money from all the people could be split among the artists, etc.
future of file sharing? -music and movie industry no longer makes money from CD/DVD sales, profit now comes from lawsuits against people sharing the movies they make. ok so it probably wont ever get that bad, but I anticipate file sharing to shrink more and more. I think we are past the peak of "pirate" file sharing honestly
I'm starting to think that the future of file sharing might be that if p2p applications get shut down that every person will end up using torrents. But if torrent applications and torrent sites get shut down (which they wont, not the websites anyway) then well maybe the future might have to be one of those one click hosting sites where people will then hav to pay for subscriptions for their sites such as rapid share.
Well, even if torrents were to get shut down (huge if)), you have newsgroups where no one uploads to one another except the one uploader. If they're in a place that doesn't recognize the copyright, who do the MPAA, RIAA sue. They can try going after the sites hosting the link to the files but that hasn't worked too well.
