What If the Entertainment Industry Stopped Fighting the Internet?
In the long run, the entertainment industry won’t be able to stop music and films being distributed over the Internet, rather than via CDs and so on. It may have won early battles with MP3.com and Napster, but it can’t hold back the rising tide of peer-to-peer file sharing via such outfits as KaZaA. The sooner the entertainment industry recognizes this and comes up with business models that exploit the Internet, abandoning this Sisyphean feud, the better. This could also be one of the keys to really widespread deployment of broadband. There aren’t sufficient home workers to encourage carriers to deploy DSL everywhere, but there are certainly enough couch potatoes! 4: What If There Were a Big Breakthrough in Telecom Technology? Scientists say there’s nothing on the optical networking horizon to match the last big breakthrough the invention of Erbium Doped-Fiber Amplifiers (EDFAs), which really triggered the arrival of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and pretty much everything els
