A New Paradigm for Content Producers

A P2P content delivery system for alternative business models — Harnessing Internet's full potential

“…The causes of the panorama, laid down in section III, (lack of commercial success and technical regression), are related to, as argued in [6], the non-observation or nonacceptance, by the CDists, that the Internet medium has come to radically alter the technical, economic and social premises that underline the universe of IGs production, distribution and consumption. This new medium virtually eliminates storage, reproduction and distribution costs, and enables the disintermediation of the artist-consumer relationship.…”

“…This new medium virtually eliminates storage, reproduction and distribution costs, and enables the disintermediation of the artist-consumer relationship. Its establishment represents the rise of a new technical paradigm in the field of information exchange and manipulation [6].…”

“…CDists', thus, find themselves in a situation where immobility leads to obsolescence, and progress (adoption of on-line operation) threatens age-old reliable BMs [6]. Conscious that immobility is unsustainable, CDists are attempting to go in the progressive way, but with a regressive mindset.…”

“…This innovation, and associated technologies are shaking the centuries-old edifice of media production and consumption. Their impact derives from the costless data reproduction, nearly costless data exchange and disintermediation of the consumer-creator relationship that they enable [6].…”

“…Further attesting this is the fact that during the entire process of P2P network evolution up to the present moment, these networks had an intense technical (DRM technologies employment and poisoning [9] of P2P networks), and legal assault waged upon them by the content industry and still, their proliferation was unabated [11], [4]. This reality demonstrates that the strategy originally employed [6], by the established content producers in their combat of what they considered to be piracy and to P2P networks, has failed [6]. As a result of that failure, even if reluctantly, those entities have begun to use the P2P technology and Internet as a content delivery platform in more innovative ways.…”