Filesharing / Piraticy… whois the bigger culprit
So if I was a music pirate I have two primary choices bit torrent and limewire. All pretty much a filesharing tools which have taken massive amounts of heat from the record industry. I heard a bouncy ass number on the radio and I have digital radio so the song displayed on the stereo in my car. Just doing a random search on your typical bit torrent sites returned a fair amount of results. Doing the same search in Limewire causing me to get a mix of amateur pr0n (guessing) and different versions of the same song song in different bit rates.
Both of these methods cause considerable amount of work on my part to get my free illegal music. Bit torrent requires a client I install on my computer and limewire is freeware with loads of “opportunities” to purchase a professional version of their software (the same as the free version without ad’s or other crap)
I fired up my simple web browser, went to the “knows where everything is” search engine google and typed the name of the song followed by MP3 and got my typical 5000+ O’s in the name google results. Trusting the top 5 are what I want “come on who looks past the top 5″ I clicked the first result. The website said click here to download this song. Upon clicking firefox notified me that my file was done downloading I imported it into itunes, my ipod sync’d and within seconds I was enjoying the song I wanted without effort on my part all thanks to google and its amazing search engine technology.
So my question is who’s the biggest culprit in ading the internets filesharing, pirate patch wearing ways — the Peer to Peer networks, Bit Torrent networks or Google / Search Engines?