Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Fri Sep 3 10:16:03 UTC 2004

Michel Py wrote:
> In other words: as of today a large part of the bandwidth is allocated
> to building everyone's collection of files. This might gradually
> change to become bandwidth being used only for incremental updates as
> huge local file libraries become common place.

But this possible assumes that production of new media will either slow or 
stay at a constant rate. The never-yet-realised side effect of all this 
distribution capacity is that possible many more artists will have access to 
the listeners / viewers and in more narrow niches than the existing system 
allows. And that may be the real nightmare for the existing vested-interest 
groups.

Peter 