P2P helpful, but not the solution
a world of music
Internet P2P networks like Napster and Kazaa filled a gap while they lasted, but the tedious searching, selection, downloading, previewing, dumping and building of playlists is far to time consuming to fill a fresh playlist daily, not to mention the unwelcome anxiety of wondering when a subpoena is going to show up in your mailbox.So often I have restlessly desired access to the culture of music and commentary from Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, London, Sydney and many beyond. Listening to radio in these great cities, visited too infrequently and too briefly, reminds me that despite living in the sixth largest city in the US, my access to great audio productions remains impoverished by the monopolistic control of a few media robber barons whose programming is driven by a broken feedback loop, the mediocre, mindless formula of the bell curve.