"Whoa"
Researchers using Internet2 recently demonstrated that they could download a DVD-quality copy of "The Matrix" in 30 seconds over the network
Posted on 04/13/2005 2:34:30 PM PDT by Racehorse
DURHAM, N.H. -- Another round of lawsuits against college students accused of illegally sharing music and movie files has drawn attention to a new high-speed network used at colleges across the country.
The University of New Hampshire is one of hundreds of colleges and organizations using Internet2, which boasts speeds hundreds of times faster than the Internet.
UNH researchers use the network to share large files that would take minutes or hours to send over the standard Internet. According to UNH network manager Doug Green, with Internet2, those big files can be sent in seconds.
"The Internet2 is a high-speed backbone that allows all those research groups to collaborate," Green said.
That speed is what the recording industry says makes it so easy to transfer copyrighted materials. Researchers using Internet2 recently demonstrated that they could download a DVD-quality copy of "The Matrix" in 30 seconds over the network, something that would normally take about 25 hours over the Internet.
The network is open to everyone at the university, from tenured instructors to first-year students, such as Lauren Belmer. She said she's steered clear of illegal file sharing but knows many students who illegally download and share music and video files.
"I think it's done illegally just because college students don't have a lot of money to get the music they want," Belmer said.
The recording industry's latest file-sharing lawsuits do not target any New Hampshire students. Campus officials credit education, luck and students making the right choice.
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Wow there really are internets
Cassette tapes will end the recording industry.
Compact discs will end the recording industry.
VHS & Betamax will end the movie industry.
The internet will end the recording industry and the movie industry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heard it all before.
"Whoa"
Researchers using Internet2 recently demonstrated that they could download a DVD-quality copy of "The Matrix" in 30 seconds over the network
You're right, of course. But Internet2 is what caught my interest. Remember ARPANET?
Let's see, the music industry claims record sales have fallen 30% since 1999 and that their lawsuits have helped slow downloads, dropping 20%. It seems to me the numbers don't add up right. Maybe music and downloads are down because they put out a lousy product.
Yup, this has been in the works for a few years now.
Well, I certainly didn't use it when it was just ARPANET. I first got one the 'net back in about 1990 in a college Telecomputing class. I once Telnet-chatted (on a VT100 terminal emulation in Windows 3.1) with a guy who was either directly involved in the creation of Mosaic or was pretty close to it. He talked about the World Wide Web and how it would revolutionize the Internet. He wasn't wrong.
Wow! When that thing gets going my Torrents will fly!!
When am I going to be able to get "internet 2" for my nice home?
And also maybe their tactic of suing their customers who are poor college students and kids for a ridiculous $750 dollars a song and doing whatever they can to make it difficult for people to play music on their computer has ticked off people so much they dont want to shell out the money. Id rather use bittorrent or just listen to internet radio than give money to people who treat their customers like the enemy.
I have always been a user/consumer of one technology or another. I date back to before torn-tape and punch cards. For awhile I had to know how to read the punches in both, because the ink ran out faster than we could restock the ribbons.
The moment after I heard some of the guys from our Comm/Elect shop talking about something called Mosaic, I downloaded (gopher?) and installed it on my office computer (like you, Windows 3.1). When the NCSA Mosaic home page popped into the browser, I was dazzled and hooked.
So much so, that after playing around with it for a few hours, I actually picked up the phone and called the NCSA lab. I told them what an astonishing creature they had created. Evidently, those end user kind of calls were rather rare in those days and they delighted in giving me a peek into the future . . . which has gone far beyond their dreams and expectations . . . and mine.
penguin?
Their sales will continue to fall until they realize that most of the people in the red counties:
- Don't live in areas with gangs/drugs/drive-by-shootings/Ebonics-only zones, etc.
- Don't ever want to live in areas with the above,
- Can't relate to the people in such areas,
- Don't want their neighborhoods to ever deteriorate to the point that they can relate to such people,
- Don't want their kids to develop the same mentality as these people,
- Don't consider this as music or artistry in any case,
- Wouldn't be caught dead listening to this tripe,
- Would fall on their proverbial swords before ever letting their kids listen to it,
- Don't appreciate having this stuff shoved down their throats,
and last but not least...
- Get seriously enraged at the hint that if they don't embrace the above then they are racist.
Yeah, Penguin(s)!
It's a Linux thang.
Excellent summation.
Not any time soon, I'm afraid.
But here's the rub: The Intrernet we're on at this moment was designed as a post-nuclear war communications system, using protocols designed to re-route data if a node goes down, and dynamic IP addresses. This inadvertantly makes anonymity fairly easy to come by.
The designers and partners (government and corporate) in the Internet 2 Project are all too aware of this result, and are making damned sure they don't repeat that "mistake".
They don't like the fact that Internet 1 is extremey difficult to regulate and control, so they are designing Internet 2 to be hundreds of times faster, but also hundreds of times easier for the self-anointed powers-that-be to track down , sue, fine, or prosecute anyone who posts content that is deemed verboten.
Therefore, Internet 2 is most likely going to end up just another delivery vehicle for Time-Warner and Viacom. Like broadcasting over the airwaves, it will be just as tightly regulated by the corporate media and their lapdogs in Congress.
No thanks!
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