Peer-to-Peer
networks are decentralized networks in which peers interact by receiving or
posting information online. There are many P2P networks today, one of them
being Freenet, a file sharing site that allows people to publish or view any
information worldwide.
Freenet
encompasses three main goals for its users. “It offers uncensorable
dissemination of controversial information; it has efficient distribution on
high bandwidth content and is known as a universal personal publishing site”.
It is an open source system in which volunteers work on developing and improving
its function daily. Even though
this sort of free site gives total control to its users to publish any
information there are both negative and positive impacts to society, politics
and the economy.
Freedom of Speech Through P2P Networks:
By being a user
of Freenet, you are allowing your information published to be viewed around the
world to strangers. If someone puts up something you do not like or view as
offensive it will come down eventually but not right away. If something
persists as popular on the site, it will stay up because of its frequent hits. Since
Freenet protects freedom of speech by enabling anonymous and uncensorable
publication of material it is very hard to track the author of a particular
post. That being said, Freenet has valuable impacts on our society. It
encourages responsible and social behavior, through people posting better
quality information since the information can be viewed worldwide. This type of
file sharing allows anyone to communicate freely with ideas and to produce free
content over the web. With the fast pace development of technology, file sharing
allows anyone to publish anything in the network at any time, speeding up
society.
Positive Impact
of File Sharing on Independent Labels:
Freenet allows
for any media content to be posted, but is nearly impossible to trace the
author of the content. Independent media labels see this a way to reach users,
even if money is not produced. Brady Lahr, president of Kufala Recordings, is
one of the few to argue that file sharing plays an important role in society.
Independent booksellers and artist are trying to release their names to society
even if that means not making profit off of it. The main goal of independent
artist is to introduce their music to Americans, and with little fame it is
hard for them to be on ITunes. Being accessible through file sharing gives
upcoming artist a chance to go big, even if they are just starting out small. On the other hand president of
MetaMachine Inc. keeps his distance from file sharing because he has no idea
who the users are, their preferences, or where they are from. He does not see a
point in file sharing if no profit is being made and you do not know who is
listening to your music.
The downfall of
using Freenet:
Through file
sharing sites such as Freenet there have been negative and positive impacts on
society. Freenet efficiently stores and distributes information on a global
scale, reaching many Americans around the world. Politically some companies
stray away from file sharing sites because copyright laws force them to keep
their distance. Economically there has been a decline in music sales because of
illegal music downloads. Since there is no way to track authors, file sharing
can be seen as unsafe because you’ll never track the person posting
inappropriate pictures online. In the end Freenet gives members of the public a
printing press, a chance to express information freely worldwide.
Brady discusses how P2P networks, specifically Freenet, both negatively and positively impact our society, politics, and economy. First, she explains how Freenet promotes freedom of speech by allowing people to anonymously post material. Brady also explains how file sharing can benefit independent artists by releasing their music to society so that they can become more popular.
ReplyDeleteThen, Brady discusses the negative impacts that file sharing and the use of sites like Freenet have on the music industry. Artists and recording companies are not getting paid for their music being shared online, so their income is decreasing. In addition, CD sales have dropped tremendously, almost by 6 billion in just a few years. Brady includes an informative chart to show the large amount of free and copied music that has been downloaded in the U.S.
In her last paragraph, Brady sums up the pros and cons of file sharing sites such as Freenet. These sites allow music to be distributed world-wide and can help artists become more popular. However, music sales have declined because of these file-sharing sites. Additionally, file sharing can be unsafe because the anonymous posters can’t be tracked. Overall, I thought Brady did a great job comparing the good and bad aspects of file sharing. Her headline for the post was explanatory and told me exactly what the post was going to be about, and her headlines for each paragraph highlighted the main points of her post. I think this post could have been even stronger if Brady included a link to support her paragraph on how P2P file sharing promotes freedom of speech. She gives statistics and charts on the negative impacts of P2P file sharing, but doesn’t support her argument on the positive impacts of P2P file sharing. This website http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040278/find-your-own-private-internet-with-freenet.html provides an in-depth analysis of Freenet and how exactly it preserves freedom of speech.
In Brady's description of P2P networks he gets more into the depth of Freenet. The overall presentation was well done and she did a lot of the small things very well to create an overall solid article.
ReplyDeleteThe one and only problem I had with Brady's article was the title. It was a little confusing and it could have just been me, but I had to read it over 2 or 3 times to fully understand it. Still by doing this, I was not completely sure of what I was about to read just by the title.
With this Brady did a lot of things well. Her use of graphs and images were outstanding and very clear and precise to the text. It gave the reader a great understanding of what we was being presented in the text. I really liked the placement of the graphs as far as where they were in the article as well. The article was text with graphs directly next to the related text. Embedded links also were used and a great addition to the text.
As far as text, it was all relevant, stayed on topic and gave the reader great information with supporting visuals. Nice job Brady.
Những ưu điểm của sàn gỗ ba lan Kronopolvietnam.com còn được sử dụng để lát sàn cho ban công và sân thượng mà không ngại nắng, mưa thất thường như thời tiết ở Sài Gòn.
ReplyDelete