15th
My comment on P2P Long Tail report
From Epicenter report on P2P research that found a lognormal, not powerlaw distribution of music demand: ““I suspect that says as much about P2P technology as it does about music,” Anderson said. “If just a few people are sharing a file, it makes it harder to find and get.“This research, which looks quite good, suggests that the nature of P2P music is that it follows the lognormal model,” he continued, referring to a more traditional distribution where most of the activity is about the hits, rather than being distributed deeply among lesser-known items. “File-trading clients like BitTorrent are optimized for ‘hits,’ in that you’re more likely to find someone (or many people) sharing popular files locally, and thus have a better chance at a successful download.”
