Info Freaking

Some time ago I used to use Pear-to-Pear networks to find video files or public domain movies. Torrents, E-mule, E-donkey, Kazaa, Morpheus, LimeWire are cool applications which operates P2P. These are quite handy because I was able to find virtually any video or audio material in two easy steps: search & download.

However downloading was problematic, whole process took quite some time, sometimes even 3-7 days, and if there was small number of peer computers with requested title downloading time has been extend ed to a month or more.

The WEB
Few years ago copyrighted material which appeared on the web has been quickly removed by shutting down incriminated web pages, whole web sites, even servers, since copyright owners started legal battle on many fronts.
But they forgot about the “law of large numbers” (LLN): since then number of web sites had tripled, but their legal resources haven’t.

With this idea on mind I decided to check the good old web. Emerging of powerful file hosting web sites such as Rapidshare and Megaupload added sense to this idea; increased Internet throughput added even more.

After first search I was amazed. I didn’t need to digg deep. I found bunch of results pointing to various web sites for each search query. Mostly with links pointing to Rapidshare, Megaupload or few other file storing web sites. A search for copyrighted material revealed even more results.

Putting these simple queries in Google seach will give you an idea:
dark water 2005 rapidshare
or
mammoth 2006 megaupload

Obviously MPAA and RIAA will have to return their focus on world wide web if they want to patch this new /old hole in their profit wagons. Until then, the hole is getting bigger every day.