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The Making of a Star With P2P – Part 1 – Demi Lovato.

Tom Koltai — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:54:00 +1000

Chris Gilbey, my business partner at Perceptric, after 30 years in the music business continues to amaze me with his anecdotal stories of how up and coming artists “made it”.

I have learnt a lot listening to Chris over the past few years.

However, today I saw a new method of artist promotion.

Twitter combined with Live Feed. Demi is live and answering fan questions!

Announced the Banner on top the www.ustream.tv service.

This morning Twitter was fluttering about Demi Lovato as the second most popular Twitter subject. (#demilovatolive)

Who is Demi Lovato and why should I care?

According to Chacha (yet another Internet trivia responder), Demi Lovato is a teen actress and singer & is mostly known for her role as Charlotte on Disney Channel's "As the Bell Rings."

This is relevant because?

So far, Demi is almost invisible to the World outside Disney fans and the P2P community. She is a virtual unknown. On the Emule network this morning a Kademlia ED2K search revealed 160 music tracks from her album without a single fake listed anywhere.

A TV special that she appeared in “camp rock 2.avi” appears to be enjoying quite a bit of download attention with almost 500 peers advertising its availability; as is the film clip file “Camp Rock – The Jonas brothers & Demi Lovato - This is me 2.avi”.

As for her Telemovie the Princess Protection Program – here is just the top four entries from the Kademlia listings- Snapshot taken at 2:00 AM Madrid Time.

It’s interesting that the Spanish version (Spain is in the top three download countries) is out-doing the rest of the world.

With a new album due out 27^th of July - we will report back as her star climbs higher.

Perfect P2P Publicity fodder.

In other words, Demi, an actress and singer most famous for her role in a Disney Channel program is so popular that a live streaming appearance has the capability of attracting millions of Tweeters to the point of pushing her topic to nearly the top of the Twitter top 10 chart.

How many Twittering's does it take to get to the top of the Tweet List – well about the same number as would make NBC or ABC executives turn green with envy in the USA.

Her fan club has been started (lots of information on the linked page) and is offering discount concert tour tickets to members.

We will be watching this lass and reporting on her rise through the P2P networks.

We’re pretty sure the P2P community will drag her into Stardom.

The Australian P2P Top 100 Music tracks - 1st July, 2009

Tom Koltai — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:11:00 +1000

Why do we list duplicates ?

In many cases they are not strictly duplicates. They may be remixes, or alternative quality (128 kbps, 192, 320 etc).

Nevertheless, it is partly the nature of the smorgasboard of choices that makes P2P file Sharing such an attractive proposition for downloaders.

There is a remix for all tastes. Empire of the Sun is this weeks Remix King with 21 different remixes available although only 6 seem to have made into the Top 100; possibly due to Boom Boom Pows 10 versions.

Worthy of mention is the scoring that shows this week there has been considerably less activity on P2P networks in Australia than last week.

At least, in relation the Australian Chart hits.

Michael Jackson fans that dont have all of Michaels recordings have been busily downloading everything in sight.

That includes persons living in our favourite two Melbourne suburbs (which appear to account for a very large chunk of MJ fans in Australia this past week.)

This week the Thriller Video enjoyed a P2P Score of 187 million - in Australia.

So whilst it would appear that calls to action on Television (e.g.: ACDC Special Programme - Black Ice - on Channel 7 earlier this year) encouraged P2P immediate downloads, (we call this the supermarket checkout syndrome), there would appear to be momentous events that skew normal trends.

P2P Rank	Music Tracks	P2P Score
1	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta (Feat Kelly Rowland) (Albin Myers Remix).mp3	764,506
2	Hush Hush Hush Hush - The Pussycat Dolls(Remix Ver).mp3	593,019
3	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland (Laidback Luke Remix).mp3	494,877
4	Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas & Cinconze Dj - 2009 (Ultimix-Chartbusters Remix).mp3	239,391
5	Leave The World Behind Vs Show Me Love - Axwell Ingrosso Angello & Laidback Luke - (Laidback Luke Mashup)...	183,944
6	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta (Feat Kelly Rowland) (Electro Radio Edit).mp3	172,128
7	Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - BeyoncÚ.mp3	160,417
8	Knock You Down - Keri Hilson Feat Kanye West & Ne-Yo.mp3	138,372
9	Just Dance - Lady Gaga (Deluxe Edition).mp3	137,839
10	Love Story - Taylor Swift -.mp3	123,151
11	(04) Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People--Mu G³ena.mp3	112,639
12	When Love Takes Over - 01 David Guetta- (Feat Kelly Rowland).mp3	110,160
13	You Found Me -The Fray.mp3	108,235
14	The Fear - Lilly Allen -.mp3	102,464
15	Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas (526 kbps).mp3	80,853
16	Poker Face - Lady Gaga.mp3	80,775
17	New Divide - Linkin Park.mp3	74,991
18	Dead And Gone - T I Feat Justin Timberlake.mp3	71,180
19	You Found Me - The Fray.mp3	66,132
20	Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) - A R Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls.mp3	60,204
21	Just Dance - Lady Gagga (536 kbps).mp3	58,269
22	So Human - Lady Sovereign (606 kbps).mp3	57,206
23	- Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow.mp3	53,362
24	Know Your Enemy - Green Day (491 kbps).mp3	50,737
25	When you're Mad - Ne-Yo.mp3	50,296
26	Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal Armandvanhelden (Club Dub Mix).mp3	47,910
27	My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson - .mp3	47,760
28	So What - Pink.mp3	47,254
29	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland - 2009(extended remix).mp3	46,360
30	I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas (Radio)-(495 kbps).mp3	44,818
31	We Made You - Eminem.mp3	42,649
32	The Climb - Miley Cyrus.mp3	42,263
33	Day N Nite - Kid Cudi (Crookers Remix) (1).mp3	42,077
34	Waking Up In Vegas - Katy Perry.mp3	41,394
35	Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas Feat 50 Cent - (Remix).mp3	40,202
36	Dead And Gone - T I Ft Justin Timberlake .mp3	35,987
37	Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal Feat Armand Van Helden (558 kbps.mp3	32,827
38	The Fear - Lily Allen-.mp3	31,164
39	Lovegame - Lady Gaga.mp3	30,820
40	Just Dance - Lady Gaga Ft Colby O Donis - (2008 Main Version) (558 kbps).mp3	30,040
41	I kissed a Girl - Hot N' Cold - Katy Perry - .mp3	28,674
42	Kiss Me Through The Phone - Soulja Boy.mp3	28,550
43	Halo - Beyonce.mp3	27,281
44	Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas (David Guetta Electro Hop Extended).mp3	26,103
45	Sugar - Flo-Rida Feat Winter Gordon.mp3	25,381
46	Beautiful - Akon.mp3	24,740
47	If Today Was Your Last Day -10 - Nickelback.mp3	21,930
48	Hush Hush Hush Hush - The Pussycat Dolls (Remix Ver)(1).mp3	20,356
49	Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) - A R Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls(1).mp3	20,016
50	I'd Come For You - Nickelback.mp3	15,994
51	Just Dance - Lady Gaga (Tony Arzadon Extended Club Remix).mp3	15,728
52	Noisettes - Don't Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go).mp3	15,464
53	Gives You Hell - The All-American Rejects (The Bloody Beetroots Remix).mp3	14,800
54	Metro Station - Shake It (1).mp3	13,138
55	Guru Josh Project Vs Madonna - Infinity 2008 And Ray Of Light (Acapella).mp3	12,725
56	I'm On A Boat - The Lonely Island - (Feat T-Pain).mp3	12,523
57	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland - 2009.mp3	12,062
58	I Do Not Hook Up - Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted 02.mp3	11,630
59	Love Story - 01 Taylor Swift (inc Lyrics) 354 kbps).mp3	11,052
60	Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas (Dj'danny Latin-House 2009 Remix).mp3	11,018
61	Boom Boom Pow!!! - Black Eyes Peas.mp3	9,315
62	Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas.mp3	8,738
63	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta Ft Kelly Rowland.mp3	8,476
64	Knock You Down - Keri Hilson - Featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo.mp3	7,456
65	Charlie Winston - Like A Hobo(1).mp3	6,936
66	Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas - (2009).mp3	6,451
67	Boom Boom Pow -The Black Eyed Peas (Main Version) (570 kbps).mp3	5,348
68	We Made You - [2009] Eminem.mp3	5,046
69	Poker Face - The Real Booty Babes (Eastside Extended Mix).mp3	4,961
70	Just Dance - Lady Gaga (Rannys Club Mix).mp3	4,456
71	Not Fair - Lilly Allen - .mp3	4,398
72	Poker Face 2008-10-02 Lady Gaga (Sam Rockwell Remix) 7.mp3	3,871
73	If Today Was Your Last Day - 10 - Nickelback - (1).mp3	3,760
74	Fuck You - Lily Allen (442 kbps).mp3	3,698
75	Paparazzi - 03 - Lady Gaga (408 kbps) .mp3	2,967
76	Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People (Shapeshifters Remix)-Ith-Ikn.mp3	2,953
77	Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People (Cagedbaby Remix).mp3	2,904
78	Empire Of The Sun - 04 - We Are The People (621 kbps).mp3	2,814
79	The Boy Does Nothing - Alesha.mp3	2,102
80	Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas (Alexander & Mark Vdh Club Mix).mp3	2,077
81	Rock & Roll - Eric Hutchinson (Adult Alternative) - (488 kbps).mp3	1,985
82	Not Fair - Lilly Allen -.mp3	1,864
83	If Today Was Your Last Day - Nickelback.mp3	1,848
84	Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People (Wawa Remix).mp3	1,743
85	Show Me Love - Steve Angello & Laidback Luke Ft Robin S - 2009 (Blame Remix)Sý.mp3	1,611
86	Poker Face - Lady Gaga (449 kbps).mp3	1,424
87	Battlefield - Jordin Sparks.mp3	1,353
88	Her Diamonds - Rob Thomas (Radio Edit).mp3	1,257
89	Riverside- Sidney Samson - (Original Mix).mp3	1,211
90	Neyo Ft David Banner - Miss Independent Remix 2008.mp3	1,176
91	Daniel Merriweather Feat Wale - Change.mp3	1,163
92	Love, Sex & Magic - Ciara Feat Justin Timberlake.mp3	1,007
93	Milow Ayo Technology 01 Ayo Technology Ml4595016.mp3	870
94	Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas Vs Dj Moov (Boom Moov Mix).mp3	777
95	Fire - 01-Kasabian- (Radio Edit).mp3	751
96	Day N Nite - 03-Kid Cudi Vs Crookers - (Bimbo Jones Vocal Mix) (475 kbps).mp3	733
97	Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People (Ted & Francis Remix).mp3	681
98	Knock You Down - Ne-Yo Ft Kanye West & Keri Hilson - (Marzo 2009).mp3	591
99	Paparazzi - Lady Gaga - (Stuart Price Mix)4Clubbers Pl.mp3	512
100	Depeche Mode - Peace (Analog Trigger Remix).mp3	478

The Australian Music Video Clip Top 50

Tom Koltai — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:37:00 +1000

I promised statistical revelations today about the possible damage that file sharing was causing to physical record sales.

I regret that the magnitude of the outcome would dictate that I confirm the results in more than one methodology, so for the moment, I’m afraid, we shall all have to wait a little bit longer.

I am however quite interested in the apparent leading of digital sales by P2P video clip downloads.

Here is the top fifty this week of Australian video clip downloads.

P2P Rank	Video Clip	P2P Score
1	New Divide - Linkin Park - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 424.avi	37,013,883
2	Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008.avi	11,056,478
3	I Hate This Part - Pussycat Dolls - 640 x 368.avi	10,784,972
4	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland - Promo - (Official Clip) Promo - 320 x 240.avi	9,502,767
5	Hush Hush Hush Hush - Pussycat Dolls - 480 x 288.avi	5,917,215
6	Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) - A R Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls - {Xvid}.avi	5,432,076
7	Eminem - We Made You [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 578.avi	4,850,700
8	The Fear - Lily Allen - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 550.avi	4,279,718
9	Hot N Cold - Katy Perry - [2008] Xvid - 1000 x 596.avi	3,260,421
10	Pussycat Dolls - Hush Hush [2009] SXvid (1000 x 556).avi	2,716,379
11	Hot N Cold - Katy Perry - 2008 - 720 x 400.avi	2,701,879
12	Hush Hush Hush Hush - Pussycat Dolls - (Webrip - bath) - 640 x 384.avi	2,556,804
13	I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull - Official Video - 480 x 266.avi	2,360,059
14	Lovegame - Lady Gaga - [Campari] [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 514.avi	2,239,388
15	The Pussycat Dolls - Nicole & Lil Wayne - Whatever You Like - (Live Mtv Vma Preshow 2007) - (512x384)-60.avi	2,192,032
16	Paparazzi - Lady Gaga [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 584.avi	2,093,739
17	Eh Eh - Lady Gaga [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 600.avi	1,895,845
18	Day 'n' Nite - Kid Cudi Vs Crookers - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 542.avi	1,612,190
19	Not Fair - Lily Allen [2009] SXvid - 1000 x 580.avi	1,595,590
20	Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas - [2009] Xvid - 720 x 540.avi	1,407,680
21	Sugar - Flo Rida Ft Wynter Gordon-640 x 480.avi	1,400,108
22	Get On your Boots - U2 [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 560.avi	1,265,214
23	Ashley Tisdale - It's Alright, It's Ok [2009] 1280x720.avi	1,227,857
24	Pussycat Dolls And A R Rahman - Jai Ho [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 558.avi	1,199,897
25	The Climb - Miley Cyrus - - Official Music Video (Hq) - 480 x 270.avi	1,167,519
26	Bottle Pop - Pussycat Dolls - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 558.avi	1,031,859
27	Please Don't Leave Me - Pink [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 436.avi	1,019,878
28	Not Fair -Lilly Allen - 720 x 480.avi	1,017,488
29	Don't Upset The Rhythm - Noisettes [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 556.avi	1,005,715
30	Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero [2009] (Chinese Intro) Xvid - 1000 x 550.avi	847,156
31	The Boy Does Nothing - Alesha Dixon [2008] Xvid - 1000 x 442.avi	831,438
32	I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas - Pdtv Xvid - 720 x 426.avi	816,217
33	I Do Not Hook Up - Kelly Clarkson - 640 x 344.avi	674,292
34	Metro Station - Shake It [2009] SXvid (1000 x 580).avi	673,714
35	Hush Hush Hush Hush - Pussycat Dolls - Video Clip 2009 - 320 x 240.avi	672,678
36	Takin` Back My Love - Enrique Iglesias Ft Sarah Connor & Ciara - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 452.avi	641,231
37	Halo - Beyonce - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 424.avi	592,097
38	Omen - The Prodigy [2009] Xvid.avi	551,104
39	3AM - Eminem [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 540.avi	540,936
40	My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 538.avi	508,858
41	Throw It In The Bag - Fabolous Feat The Dream - Dvbrip Xvid 2009-Fear - 960 x 396.avi	499,038
42	Love etc - Pet Shop Boys [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 480.avi	417,723
43	If I Were A Boy - Beyonce [2008] Xvid - 1000 x 550.avi	350,207
44	How To Do The Hoedown Throwdown - Miley Cyrus [2009] SXvid - 1000 x 538.avi	344,224
45	The Loving Kind - Girls Aloud - [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 546.avi	324,662
46	Thinking Of You - Katy Perry - [2009] Xvid 1000 x 560.avi	315,495
47	02 La Roux - In For The Kill [2009] SXvid (1000 x 460).avi	292,170
48	Love Story - Taylor Swift [2008] Xvid.avi	283,903
49	Diva - Beyonce [2009] Xvid - 1000 x 600.avi	277,606
50	T I Ft Justin Timberlake - Dead And Gone [2009] SXvid (1000 x 430).avi	260,082

Koltai Becomes a Wowser?

Tom Koltai — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:22:00 +1000

In the last decade I owned and managed various ISP’s and Co-Lo businesses; I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking.

(MRTG Graph "borrowed" from Wikipedia)

Peaking was bad; peaking meant that customers were not getting what they were paying for, Internet access. Or at best, some customers were receiving a reduced level of service.

Not peaking was good. Not peaking meant that every customer was a happy customer because they received their content with no packet loss (fast).

But in my day, we did not have it as bad as ISP’s do today. In the late nineties most clients were connected via dial-up with only corporations connected via bonded dial-up, ISDN, bonded ISDN or frame relay.

Ten years ago – you could put 100% of your traffic through a squid cache and no one new any better.

In fact in 1997 with Andrew Chris, Stephen, Adrian and Rex we built the worlds first Terabyte Squid Cache. We called it the Fridge. Then we hung an entire country wide IX off the fridge and everyone told us we had a kick-ass network.

Of course today with P2P, VOIP, demand built PHP database pages, we would not get away with caching everything. (Which is why I feel sorry for Optus. Their Satellite batteries do not get much of a charge during the winter months so users in the bush get a raw deal after about 10:00 pm. In fact – just like batteries in cars need swapping out every few years, so do batteries in satellites.

We may be getting a brand new NBN in a few years but before that, unless someone at NASA feels like doing a grease and oil (battery exchange) on three Geo Satellites over Australia, the people in the Bush will be left with no connectivity.

However, I digress. We were discussing me watching MRTG charts. There is something about owning/running a network that you built every step of the way that the Telcos/RBOCs will never quite grok. You know every point of failure, potential failure, chewing gum and shoelace repair location in the whole network. It is yours. You created it. Therefore, when some little kid comes along with Napster and tries to take it down by filling up all the MRTG graphs, you start a battle of wits. It is you versus the kid. He wants to rape your entire bandwidth and you have another 25,000 customers that do not really want him too.

So you watch graphs, you reconfigure routers; you purchase expensive $24,000 Alteon smart switches so that you can traffic shape the little kid. However, he gets his mates in on the Napster thing. Suddenly there is not just one leak in the dam; the whole network in multiple locations around the country is holier than a set of fishnet stockings.

You are left with no choice, all the Napster traffic has to be routed via an alternative source. You buy a satellite feed and divert all the P2P traffic straight out the dish on top of the roof to Pas-8.

Hah! That fixed his wagon and his little mates. They are now Sprint’s problem. The other customers click on blissfully unaware that you just single-handedly fought off the invading Mongol hordes to ensure that the MRTG graph did not blip over 90 %

What is all this about?

There is no such thing as net neutrality.

Anybody who thinks there is should with 19 other people squeeze into one 9 metre square washroom with a single toilet bowl and tell them that this is the only opportunity they will have for 72 hours to go to the toilet – and they only have two minutes (for all 20) in which to do it in.

Cannot be done.

P2P is killing the networks in its current format.

It is killing the networks because the content industry insists on flooding the net with fake files and DoS packets.

They consider that by making it harder for a P2P’er to obtain a file, he/she will give up and go and buy the music/video. Ummm, no!

All that happens is a quantum addition to the amount of CRC packet retries that occurs as various p2p clients reject the corrupted data and re-ask for the part file again.

Sometimes the file (usually the wmv files boys and girls – try not to download those ones – they are usually the fakes….) arrives and requires connection to obtain a license – usually a virus – do not bother – just download the next file in the list and if necessary the next one.

The harder the content industry makes it – the more determined the individuals attempt at getting the file is. I know – I can see the repeat IP numbers going after similar named files.

How to Get a Record to Number One.

But then again, this is not news to the content industry. They learnt years ago that the way to make a record number one in the physical vinyl world was to not print enough copies and let the record stores sell –out. This would cause would be purchaser to do the pub-crawl of the record stores to obtain the desired item. Record stores would be inundated with requests from individuals for the record and consequently order up big. The following week, with lots of stock, the sale people would be encouraged by the management to push the “well stocked” labels.

So whilst I am not saying the Record Companies are devious enough to repeat that modus operandi in the digital world, their actions do make think.

Therefore, the problem is that the Internet is being filled up with junk, denial of service attacks, virus masquerading as legitimate content and thousands of little content industry bots invading your home networks peeking and probing your service ports (which of course goes towards your monthly bandwidth total – without your permission – some would call that illegal trespass and theft).

The result of course is that the net is slowed down for everyone.

Your computer is slowed down (by answering all the bot queries) and the entire world looses billions (daily) in loss of productivity and ecommerce.

I blogged the other day that someone should sue the industry for the Denial of Service attacks on networks outside of the USA.

However, I also think that ISP’s should penalize P2P and video/music streaming users on a pro-rata basis. i.e.: During peak load periods, the heaviest down-loaders should pay the highest fees. Just like in the Electricity and Gas, demand marketplace.

There you have it. I am a proponent of P2P, but also a pragmatist when it comes to ensuring Service Level Quality for all users.

Sort of like the Smoking on the bus example, I gave a few weeks ago. One smoker can ruin it for everyone.

Does that mean I think that P2P should be outlawed?

Hell no. I think P2P is the only chance the Internet has of becoming very self-healing and independent of all negative growth regulatory interference.

However, I do believe that some regulation has to be inserted into the equation somewhere and if the ISP’s do not implement the regulatory environment, they probably will not like the alternatives that I see coming over the horizon.

Basically, I believe that Internet users want to be able to get what they want, when they want it and I believe that there should be a methodology developed for that eventuality to be possible without becoming a criminal.

I believe that if the world could obtain content without having to loose their anonymity or having to take out a second mortgage on the family home, then the whole illegal file sharing debacle would disappear.

Therefore, I propose a voluntary set of P2P Commandments.

I am not a deity, so this is just a very rough beginning draft….

1. Thou shalt honour the net, only use P2P in a responsible manner, and only file share for two hours per day.

2. Thou shalt not use non-P2P video or music streaming services.

3. Thou shalt pay for at least one item you download into the P2P conscience fund* – daily. Thou shalt pay what you can afford.

4. Thou shalt immediately report illegal content to the authorities as soon as you are aware of it. Dial 1-800-Dob-in-a-Pedo

It is a short list. However, I am sure that readers could suggest additional commandments.

*No – there is no conscience fund, which I am aware of – but someone should start one.

P2P as a Concert Promoters Billboard

Tom Koltai — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:05:00 +1000

This week, Simon and Garfunkel are touring SA and WA.

Simon & Garfunkel gigs
When	State	Gig	Cost
Tuesday 30 June 8pm	SA	Adelaide Entertainment Centre Hindmarsh	$97.50 (C Res)–$358.50 (gold) Tickets on sale: 17 April	Gig Info
Thursday 2 July 8pm	WA	Burswood Dome	$98.50 (C Res)–$359 (gold) Tickets on sale: 17 April	Gig Info

Source: http://www.yourgigs.com.au/artist/?124393

So we thought we would see what South Australian and West Australian people thought about Simon and Garfunkel.

We picked a few of their songs randomly and put them through the Perceptric P2P valuation formula.

This Week	Song	P2P Score
1	Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence.mp3	21531
2	Paul Simon And Art Garfunkel - Iolanda.mp3	13633
3	Simon And Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water.mp3	12025
4	Paul Simon And Art Garfunkel - The Boxer.mp3	5915
5	Simon And Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson.mp3	2677
6	Simon And Garfunkel - Cecilia.mp3	1713
7	Simon And Garfunkel - America.mp3	378
8	Simon And Garfunkel - Dust In The Wind.mp3	35
9	Slip Slidin' Away - Simon And Garfunkel - .mp3	9
10	Simon and Garfunkel - bye Bye Love.mp3	4

And we compared this to last weeks MP3 Top 10

The MP3 Top 50 by P2P Score

P2P Ranking	File Name	P2P Score
1	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland (Laidback Luke Remix).mp3	2811843
2	Hush Hush; Hush Hush - The Pussycat Dolls(Remix Ver).mp3	1666368
3	We Made You - Eminem.mp3	570688
4	Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) - A R Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls.mp3	366291
5	Knock You Down - Keri Hilson Feat Kanye West & Ne-Yo.mp3	354703
6	- David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over 2009(2).mp3	269649
7	Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal Feat Armand Van Helden.mp3	262319
8	The Climb - Miley Cyrus.mp3	253340
9	Know Your Enemy - Green Day.mp3	243580
10	Waking Up In Vegas - Katy Perry.mp3	190536

So far the Aussie Top ten (mind you that’s all states) – creams Simon and Garfunkel.

So we thought about checking out video clips and…….

P2P

Ranking

File Name

P2P Score

Paul Simon and Garfunkel - the concert in Central Park.avi

57,894,031

The Video Top 50 by P2P Score

P2P

Ranking

File Name

P2P Score

When Love Takes Over - David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland - Promo - (Official Clip) Promo.avi

54,331,731

Makes you think doesn’t it.

A couple of yesterday’s musicians appear to do it better for the P2P crowd than the current crop of up and coming wannabes (Not that the wannabes are not already be – it’s just that according to P2P, Paul and Art would appear to have more “be”.)

How does this reflect on Paul and Art – well probably through higher gate receipts.

Interim Anecdotal P2P Observation

Tom Koltai — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:27:00 +1000

Chris and I have been looking at P2P activitiy since August 2004.

However it is only since December last year that we started searching out and comparing statistics against record sales - specifically comparing deep catalogue with current new releases.

Our theory was that P2P encouraged additional sales as a form of marketing; albeit unrecognised by the Music Industry.

We have started to have some reservations about the clearcut nature of our findings.

Music Downloading may hurt physical Record Sales.

However, appears to be lead by Music Video Downloads which would appear to boost digital record sales.

Stats follow on Wednesday.

Game Over – P2P Wins.

Tom Koltai — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:14:00 +1000

Maxwell Smart fans will remember the cone of silence.

That horrendous piece of elliptical cone shaped perspex that descended from the ceiling to foil the bugging attempts of KAOS.

As Max, the Chief and spies and persons with secrets to hide have discovered worldwide, sometimes, containment (cone of silence) doesn’t work very well.

At other times, it worked fine.

Magicians use the distraction of “watch this hand” whilst they use their other hand to effect the stunt.

P2P is a little like the cone of silence, at first it didn’t work so well, now it works extremely well.

A few months ago, Chris and I were chatting to some people about the future of P2P.

I stated that by April 2009, the flow of P2P users would start disappearing fast beneath a cover of I2P.

This morning I was searching for MD5 handlers and came across a new meme.

As always, I thought I would share it with a few million people.

I have identified over twenty “legitimate” big-name software projects that utilize the beneficial structure of P2P as integral to their operating capabilities.

Here I do not refer to illegal file sharing – I refer to file handling.

Think online software licensing distribution e.g.: Microsoft Word on an online server with automatic utilisation of same available globally without having to download the program or install it on your computer.

The software resides on the net and authorized users may use it for a fee.

Now combine that with the potential of distributing the software amongst several hundred people based on a restrictive hop count algorithm and localized MAC address authority index.

i.e.: Several people in company “A” have 25% of the code. Several persons in Company “B” located in the same building have another 25% of the code; with the rest of the code allocated to Company “C” also in the same building.

When a user from Company “A” needs to run a spell-check, the spell-check component is loaded from Company “C” and not from Microsoft’s servers in Redmond.

How does it all work ????

Routing is per MAC address cluster [<65,000] and not IP number. Code modules are identified via hash files including encrypted permission keys. Permission keys are recognised based on the level of license paid for.

This is not the forum for discussion of the additional operational details, just assume for a moment that it works. What are the benefits.

Several, firstly, companies don’t have to upgrade thousands of licences any more. They just pay per user for the components used for the time they are active.

Secondly, because the software is shared at a local level, only new logons need to register with Redmond for activation purposes with the rest of the transaction taking place within the same building or ISP.

Therefore internet bandwidth is saved increasing browsing and data transfer capabilities for everyone else.

Microsoft ensures that everyone has the latest version of the software without companies needing to stay on top of the upgrade loop.

What are the Disadvantages?

Microsoft and its affiliates learn about a companies operational modus operandi.

(I didn’t say this was a good idea, just that it was technically feasible now).

What are the Evolutionary Results?

File sharing – now made possible at a MAC address level goes through the roof as an option in MS-Word.

(Fictional composite imagery compiled for article.)

How is this happening ?

Several different ways but XML appears to be the winning strategy at the moment; and of course, only one person per 65,000 addresses needs to be visible to the outside world.

This would appear to suggest that the file sharing game is over.

The Score Board as we see it:

	Visible P2P Software %	Content Industry Interdiction %	Government Legislation %	Invisible P2P %	Total File Sharing %
1998	100	0	0		100
1999	90	10	0		100
2000	85	13	2		100
2001	80	17	3		100
2002	90	5	4	1	100
2003	90	3	5	2	100
2004	90	3	2	5	100
2005	75	10	5	10	100
2006	70	12	3	15	100
2007	65	8	2	25	100
2008	45	4	8	43	100
2009	33	3	10	54	100
2010	23	1	1	75	100

It would seem from our own internal data collection efforts that the Score appears to be in favour of P2P software with file sharing as the major motivating factor.

Yes, we will still see the industry thrashing about in it’s legalistic death throws but then as it adopts the new emerging business models, P2P will become just another ….

Do you remember the days of the Prohibition? Fellah couldn’t get a decent drink anywhere……

And the Governments? Well, they will get back to doing the important things for their voters, like ensuring housing is available, encouraging local manufacturing and learning that ignoring Hollywood is not such a bad thing after all.

References:

LUA

A Simulation Study of the Proactive Server Roaming for Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks
Chatree Sangpachatanaruk et al, 2003

Least Cost Ad-Hoc Routing,Khoo, DiBono, Koltai July 1997

Bogons and Bogon Filtering with Bogon Route Servers

Presentation, Dave Deitrich, NANOG-33 Meeting, Feb 2005

RFC-4632 Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR)

RFC-2073 An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format

Using Distributed COM with Firewalls

Michael Nelson - June 20, 1998

Internet Explorer 8 to be Distributed by Automatic Updates

DTC Developers Giude

Bringing P2P to the Web: Security and Privacy in the Firecoral Network
Jeff Terrace, Harold Laidlaw, Hao Eric Liu, Sean Stern, and Michael J. Freedman
Princeton University

Reference list – incomplete – Commercial-in-confidence - Perceptric Corporate Data

The Plus Side of File Sharing

Tom Koltai — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:03:00 +1000

We have mentioned independent film producers before.

However, very few have publicly experimented with File sharing and then shared the results.

Today, I found the accidental exception from November 2007.

To Whom It May Concern:

My name is Eric D. Wilkinson and I am the producer of a small independent film called “Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth” (our review).

I am sending you this email after realizing that our website has had nearly 23,000 hits in the last 12 days, much of it coming from your website. In addition, our trailer, both on the www.manfromearth.com site and other sites like YouTube, MySpace and AOL has been watched nearly 20,000 times AND what’s most impressive is our ranking on IMDb went from being the 11,235th most popular movie, to the 5th most popular movie in 2 weeks (we are also the #1 independent film on IMDb & the #1 science fiction film on IMDb). How did this all happen? Two words: Torrent / File Sharing sites (well, four words and a slash).

More specifically, RLSLOG.net. Our independent movie had next to no advertising budget and very little going for it until somebody ripped one of the DVD screeners and put the movie online for all to download. After that happened, people were watching it and started posting mostly all positive reviews on IMDb, Amazon and other places. Most of the feedback from everyone who has downloaded “The Man From Earth” has been overwhelmingly positive. People like our movie and are talking about it, all thanks to piracy on the net!

Am I upset… surprisingly no. Thanks to everyone who has downloaded this torrrent and watched the film, our awareness level is through the roof. For that I say, “THANK YOU”!

What you guys have done here is nothing short of amazing. In the future, I will not complain about file sharing. YOU HAVE HELPED PUT THIS LITTLE MOVIE ON THE MAP!!!! When I make my next picture, I just may upload the movie on the net myself!

So there it is, one lone brave voice who is not scared into submission, coming forward and telling the truth about how his movie became a success.

And here it is for all of you that missed the Foxtel rendition.

Those with an ED2K client know what to do...

The.Man.From.Earth.2007.PROPER.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO.sharingfreelive.net.avi

Reference:

http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:ARHCGfBkjjQJ:www.rlslog.net/piracy-isnt-that-bad-and-they-know-it/+piratery.net&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a

Unless you are not operating from a behind a filtered internet connection in which case:

http://www.rlslog.net/piracy-isnt-that-bad-and-they-know-it/+piratery.net&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a

Asymmetric Communications - Everything Is Going To The Edge

Chris Gilbey — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:14:00 +1000

Enterprises want things to change. They want more sales, more profits, less overhead, market domination (by us, not them). A lot of things that require change.

But a lot of people want things to remain exactly as they are too. They want all that stuff, but they don’t realize one critical point. You can only change the exterior stuff if you change the interior stuff first.

And if you change in the wrong way, you actually create the exact opposite to what you set out to do.

Now all that may be as clear to you as the nose on your face, but do you live life that way. Think about it in the context of the music industry and some of the things that we repetitively go on about in the writings on this blog.

The music industry is constantly striving for more sales – regardless of whether you have a record company, a music publishing company, or you are selling merchandise – or swag as they call it in the trade. Nothing wrong with that – it is all part of that rich tapestry that we call capitalism.

So along comes the whole concept of file sharing and what you get is entirely predictable – you get a giant push back from the record companies and publishing companies. They see file sharing as the ultimate evil. Their music is going to be passed from hand to hand to hand with no transaction fee. And then they look at who gets to benefit and what do they see? ISP’s.

It is really quite natural that the music business sees ISP’s as people who deriving huge benefit from their intellectual property.

So they spend a huge amount of money on lawyers to look for ways to use the law against the downloaders. They try suing them and then start to realize that in doing that they are creating lots of column inches for newspapers. At first that seems like a good thing, because the music business loves to get stories in the papers – it helps sell their music. Then they realize that the stories that resonate most in the eyes of the public are the ones that make the music business appear to be a bunch of thieving bastards. That didn’t work. What next?

Next they try hiring a bunch of geeks to write code that goes onto the CD’s that they sell, that stop CD’s being ripped. Unfortunately it turns out that the geeks they hired weren’t so cool after all and the CD’s that were manufactured put malware onto the consumers’ computers. More bad press, and worse still, now some bright attorneys general think that the music companies should be sued. Even more bad press.

In the meantime the music companies, along with a bunch of other businesses that rely on selling bits of shiny plastic with zeroes and ones on them where you buy the plastic but not the zeroes and ones, have gotten a win through the introduction of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This gives the music companies the absolute knowledge that no one can mess with their IP because they have the law on their side.

So then the music companies figure out that they should go after the ISP’s. But the ISP’s aren’t too keen on this idea as you can imagine. So they push back. And they have the benefit of understanding what they do better than the music companies understand.

The problem here is that the music companies wanted to remain in their comfort zone. They thought – and continue to think – that because they appear to have a moral right, seen from their perspective, their will should prevail.

It won’t. Not if they keep doing things the way that they have, anyway.

They need to think like salesmen instead of thinking like academics.

Wait a minute… hard-bitten, cigar chewing music honchos thinking like academics!?

Well, maybe not wittingly thinking that way, but thinking that way nonetheless.

It is actually a mindset.

It is a way of thinking that I have encountered in almost every company or enterprise, large and small that I have worked with in the last 30 odd years. And without criticising academia too harshly, they often get into this mindset when they are faced with having to deal with engagement with the commercial world…

When faced with having to change their ways in order to deal with the commercial world, there is a strong tendency to pull down the shutters and start writing another grant application.

And who can blame them? If you can do something successfully more than once, it probably means that you have a talent for it, so why not keep repeating it ad nauseam….?

Which is what the music companies did too.

There really wouldn’t be too much of a problem with this approach if it were not for one thing that changes everything. Digital.

The concept and the reality of digital is such a massive disruptor it is incredible. It doesn’t just enable nice orderly progressive change. It creates jagged huge tectonic shifts in everything it touches.

And it is touching absolutely everything.

We all know it has touched music and entertainment – first with the advent of the CD and DVD and then, as noted above, with file compression making it cost effective to shift data across networks, as, at the same time, Moore’s Law made storage of content orders of magnitude less expensive, all at the same time.

It has hit the food industry, making genetically modified crops possible and relentless in their incursion into our diets. Genetic modification couldn’t take place without digital technology making it possible to map and then split and splice genes.

It is gradually wrapping itself around every industry and every industry is going to find that it faces the kind of challenges that were first felt in the music business. All business likes to control the space it occupies. And the tendency of business, when it perceives a threat, just like people and nations, is to stand their ground and then to fight back.

But digital is not something that you can fight using the weapons that most managers think of when trying to keep control of their space.

The big lesson that every business should start taking from what has happened to the music business is that P2P is a ghost. It can’t be held. It permeates everything.

P2P is a small subset of the asymmetric modality of life that we have entered.

I wrote a year of so ago about the Chinese Colonels who wrote a book on asymmetric warfare and how they discussed, back in about 1998, the concept of an economic war with the US in where economic damage would be able to be done by attacking computer networks and significant infrastructure. That of course happened.

On the other side of this coin is the concept of asymmetric business models. These are the business models that shift the transaction of information to the edge of the network, where all value is actually in the information rather than in the commodity itself.

Think about it. In a world where GM foods are an inconvenient truth where is the value in the food supply? It is in the information as to where it was grown and by whom using what means. That information is going to remain at or near the edge of the network.

In a world where energy is no longer something that we can take for granted how can asymmetric distribution of the energy resource based on information about the energy, be valued? My thoughts on this are only embryonic, but my sense is that if we are going to move to a world in which solar and other alternative energies are fed into the grid they will need to be certified and tracked and that can happen primarily by thinking about their value in informational terms rather than just as electrons moving along some copper.

This stuff has enormous connotations for the way we exist. Businesses and enterprises – along with academia – have a massive need to start thinking in entirely unconventional ways. As do governments. And governments themselves will need to reconstruct themselves in a totally new way. There will need to be a move away from centralized power and decision making. There will almost certainly need to be a further layer of government rather than one less. I would see community co-operative government being the way to go, with local trade being driven partially by the adoption of simple barter systems based on local information exchanges which primarily function to keep financial energy circulating through local economies as much as possible.

These ideas will emerge from all parts of the world over the next few years and will create a totally new kind of wealth for the people that participate in them. Countries as we know them, will radically change, and those areas of the world that are able to develop and incorporate asymmetric, P2P thinking into the way that they operate will become the leaders.

Not the light on the hill, but many lights on many hills.

Twitter – The Che Guevara Google Buster of the Internet

Tom Koltai — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:54:00 +1000

A few weeks ago I wrote about Twitters lack of character space being it’s biggest drawback for the medium to be a serious political critique or voter feedback tool.

I said: “Well I refer to the limitations of one of the feedback mediums used which is more suitable to “Look at Me – Grab a Headline” than real communication.”

After reviewing #iranelection today, I have to eat my words.

As a one to many broadcast communication medium, twitter just may be the most important p2p tool invented.

Here are a few select excerpts.

CyrusofPersia: We will take the streets with flowers, every time they beat us with a Baton we will hit back with a flower.. #IranElection #Neda #Iran #Tehran

less than 10 seconds ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

sherinodonya: If someone in your group gets killed, do not give the body to hospitals. Document the killing, Hide them for their families. #Iranelection

less than 20 seconds ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

Flowersophy: RT: Wear gloves, tear gas canisters are warm, they can be thrown back at the police, do this fast! #Iranelection

less than 20 seconds ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

twitrevolution: Bring tehran to a standstill. Take over a bus, burn and block a street with is is not so difficult and dangerous. #iranelection

less than 20 seconds ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

armyy: We got the police badge (shield) from the basij who shoot #Neda. "it was not in purpose to shoot her". #Iranelection #Mj #Iran

less than 20 seconds ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

afornase: Detail about Iranian COUP D'ETAT. http://ow.ly/fTwU Get Educated! Know what is really happening! May the Revolution prevail! #iranelection

less than 20 seconds ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

FreeEyeRan: PLZ RT: Use Steganography to hide & encrypt info in pics, email avatars, etc!!! http://tinyurl.com/lxg5ee (expand v:shapes="_x0000_i1025">) #iranelection #tehran #neda #gr88

half a minute ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

ozgeorge: Please RT: http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/21185/ #iran #iranelection

less than a minute ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

amalada: @ThinkIran Twitter Is Infested With Secret Police - Do Not Fall Trap - Do Not Click ANY Links #IranElection Tehran Iran Neda

less than a minute ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

korkie: RT Iran: Use weapons only in self-defence, dont give them legitimacy to shoot into crowds. #Iranelection #iran #neda

less than a minute ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

iranemah: From Iran: we vill never give up, the more they kill the stronger we get, we WILL have our freedom #iranelection

less than a minute ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

1Crazywolf: #iranelection where did all the gov bots go and is it something to do with Khamenei no show

1 minute ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

and by the time you read the page…..

45 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them.

Twitter as well as being apparently a capable reporting media appears to be sufficient to disseminate emotion, tactics advice and rhetoric.

In fact the perfect disruptive insurgency tool.

Compared to a twitter feed – traditional newsrooms throughout the world in both broadcasting mediums and the print-press are becoming irrelevant. With the exception that to actually link on all the links in a twitter feed you need about 80 analysts speed-reading to know what is relevant and what is counter insurgency political doublespeak from the government.

So – the role of the popular press will be reduced to editorial focus depending on the political leanings of the analyst readers and the show/paper producer.

I see a huge opportunity for a news aggregation service to turn Twitter feeds into a useable news information product.

Entrepreneurs…. Coders….. Ready, set, go!