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December 3, 2004
SnoCap is NoCap
Shawn Fanning's Snocap touts vision of P2P heaven | The Register is the latest attempt to extract $$ from the P2P network traffic. I think this one is DOA as well.
Posted by Martin at December 3, 2004 12:48 PM
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It sure does seem like a step back. Fanning says that the legit music services can't offer the same selection as p2p, but that's just outright wrong. The volume of music traded on p2p may dwarf something like the iTunes Music Store volume, but the selection and consistency of quality for the legit services is far higher.
It would be almost impossible to find all of the indie stuff that's avaliable in the itms on any p2p network. If you did find some, it wouldn't be complete.
I also don't like the audio fingerprint idea. It limits the "universe" of supported files to what is submitted by the record labels. Seems to me, that someone selling those files ought to know that they are legal without the hassle of "fingerprinting" them to find out.
Posted by: Toby 
at December 3, 2004 1:30 PM
Interesting note about P2P in an article written in 2001 by Joel Spolsky:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
"Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music" and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it's interesting because it's peer to peer, completely missing the point that it's interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away."
And basically that's the point I guess Toby is also trying to make. If iTunes can give me the song I want RIGHT away and sync it right into my iPod, who cares if its P2P or P2C2B2P?
Posted by: jazzyjus at December 14, 2004 10:29 PM
Interesting note about P2P in an article written in 2001 by Joel Spolsky:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
"Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music" and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it's interesting because it's peer to peer, completely missing the point that it's interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away."
And basically that's the point I guess Toby is also trying to make. If iTunes can give me the song I want RIGHT away and sync it right into my iPod, who cares if its P2P or P2C2B2P?
Posted by: jazzyjus at December 14, 2004 10:30 PM
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