{"id":3435,"date":"2004-01-06T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/01\/06\/looking-beyond-the-pew-report-and-th"},"modified":"2004-01-06T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2004-01-07T00:20:02","slug":"looking-beyond-the-pew-report-and-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/01\/06\/looking-beyond-the-pew-report-and-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Beyond the Pew Report and The Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a549'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Read through Frank&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/msl1.mit.edu\/furdlog\/index.php?m=200401#post-1174\">links<\/A> about the Pew Report on P2P downloading.&nbsp;A couple of thoughts I haven&#8217;t seen elsewhere<\/P><br \/>\n<P>1.&nbsp; What about services like Earthstation 5, and Morpheus with its proxy servers, and other similar services with privacy enhancing features that were left out of the report?&nbsp;For those who are still sharing, which services are they using?&nbsp; Will we have a similar effect to when Napster was shut down?&nbsp; First only some migrated to the new services, and then word quickly spread and all Napster users moved over.&nbsp; Could there just be a lag in adopting these other services?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>2.&nbsp; Does the RIAA have a target number in mind?&nbsp; What level of piracy would be tolerable?&nbsp; Is one in seven good enough?&nbsp; If we reach the target, what will happen with DRM?&nbsp; If infringement is stalled to a tolerable degree clearly because of the lawsuits, then what need is there to pursue DRM, regardless of whether you see it as a futile solution?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>3.&nbsp; Will the effect last?&nbsp; If people actually&nbsp;have been scared off now, would a lapse in lawsuits perhaps lead to some sharing again?&nbsp; &nbsp;A related question: if the <EM>Verizon <\/EM>decision leads to fewer lawsuits, particularly over the longer term, will people respond to that?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read through Frank&#8217;s links about the Pew Report on P2P downloading.&nbsp;A couple of thoughts I haven&#8217;t seen elsewhere 1.&nbsp; What about services like Earthstation 5, and Morpheus with its proxy servers, and other similar services with privacy enhancing features that were left out of the report?&nbsp;For those who are still sharing, which services are they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}