| Will be interesting to see how they limit access. It you go to the P2P-Next site, you'll see that they note development will be within context of existing EU intellectual property laws and that P2P,as it currently exists, is viewed by intellectual property owners (media) as being primarily used for illegal file sharing. Seems like their system will have more controls. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a closed system where the "uploading" will be limited to verified intellectual property holders, not the general public. So, their model will be similar to the US, they will just use a different delivery technique--closed P2P--to deliver content once you've subscribed and paid, rather than streaming, which is probably better for the ISPs, with respect to bandwidth. They're not too clear on what forms of digital copyright management their files will contain, but you can be sure that there will be some form of copyright management to keep files from being usable on open P2P systems. |
