Last time we talked about the digitization of public opinions to form high level political decisions. Today's topic is a precursor to complete political de-stratfication, and more important, an example of computerized anarchy (something on word perversions to come) that has naturally evolved online already. Bit torrent. It's probably a large part of the reason that nearly all movies made in the last couple years were awful. A new form of somewhat legal but mostly illegal entertainment sharing that exemplifies the concept of many users contributing a small part to make a whole that can be shared with others- a form of computerized communism.
For what it is, bit torrent is amazing: all users seeking to download anything from "tank girl" to the entire career of a favorite band, can link with all other users who simultaneously take and give certain bandwidths of the recording so that all of them can get the complete version without paying a red cent (except for the cost of internet access). Users can even get movies the night that they arrive in theaters from the Russians. I wish to add here that I have never downloaded a recording via bit torrent and I do not intend to unless it becomes legal.
Essentially, all of the actors in Hollywood are going to go broke, this is evident in one new movie; "An American Carol" the worst movie that I ever watched the first fifteen minutes of. No sales means no profits, means no salaries... unless artists could appeal to their fans to pay them for acting on a donation basis. This brings us to another interesting consideration; if actors worked for donations each fan would contribute as much as it was worth to them, meaning that the supply would equal demand curves would line up and the maximum amount of fans could enjoy their favorite actors' work for the price that they are willing to pay.
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