Legal Use of P2P Growing Faster Than Illegal Use
The Constable on October 24th, 2008
There’s a new article over at Ars Technica discussing how the legal use of P2P is growing at a faster rate than illegal use. Of course, the fact that illegal use is already so immense does make it quite easy for legal use to grow at a faster rate (a much lower baseline).
What’s the most interesting about the article is that P2P is seeing some very legitimate uses. As we’ve said before: if people pay attention to technology and distribution models that gain popularity as a way to steal content, they may start noticing that the technology isn’t always created solely to “steal” but instead as a better way to distribute (and may have help businesses better serve their customers, if they can figure out how to give customers what they want - and then build a business model around it).
