Thanks to the P2P Weblog for pointing to this illuminating flow-chart of P2P file-sharing. A distribution pyramid illustrates how music and movies are sytematically pushed into the file-sharing networks, and seep down to end users.
"The great global shipping lanes for black-market content are the P2P networks. File-sharing technologies—combined with cheap burners—have produced a lawless zone where notions of copyright don't apply. After all, what's the RIAA to a broadband-bolstered Shakira fan in Korea? The result is a war over who controls our culture's collective body of ideas."
