Shirky on Social Networks and Filesharing

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[GoldSounds] Continuing my recent theme of social networks, trust, searching and filesharing I present an article by Clay Shirky. He describes the technological and social effects of the RIAA’s strategies against file-sharing: by attacking some of the few nodes that make a large number of files accessible for most of the time, they have sufficiently weakened the system that users are angry, both at Kazaa (for example) and the RIAA.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Darknet] 'Darknet' endnotes: Clay Shirky, "The Music Business and the Big...Online at http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=195 9. Joy Lanzendorfer, "Filesharing

 [Shirky.com] Clay Shirky's Internet Writings: The RIAA's current legal strategy is driving broad public adoption of encryption, 10 years after it was first predicted

[Blogger.iftf.org] IFTF's Future Now: Clay Shirky's "File-sharing Goes Social": Clay Shirky has posted a great essay, "File-sharing Goes Social," on the coevolution of file-sharing systems and RIAA legal strategies to destroy them: .

[Townx.zenwebhosting.com] townx | Clay Shirky's Blog: With the RIAA'swaves of legal attacks driving experimentation with decentralizedfile-sharing tools, file-sharing networks have progressively tradedefficiency for resistance to legal attack.

[Pinds.com] Shirky: Next step in file sharing: If Kazaa, Gnutella and others are severely damaged by the Crush the Connectors attack, users will either give up free file-sharing, or switch to less efficient social spaces. This might seem like an unalloyed win for the RIAA, but for one inconvenient fact: there are more people than are songs.

[Lists.microshaft.org] [DMCA_Discuss] Shirky: File-sharing Goes Social: A number of recent books on networks,such as Gladwell's _The Tipping Point_ [isbn.nu/0316316962],Barabasi's _Linked_ [isbn.nu/0738206679], and Watts' _Six Degrees_[isbn.nu/0393041425], have noted that large, loosely connectednetworks derive their effectiveness from a small number of highlyconnected nodes, a pattern called a Small World network.

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Posted at June 22, 2005 03:11 PM