{"id":374,"date":"2008-06-12T07:54:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-11-23T00:49:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:49:56","slug":"return-of-the-sneakernet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Return of the sneakernet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ages ago (pre-1990), most computers weren&#8217;t connected to networks. You had to use <em>sneakernet<\/em> to transfer files &#8212; put them on a floppy disk, and walk to the other computer (in your sneakers).<\/p>\n<p>The rise of networking killed off sneakernet, but maybe only temporarily.  Rasmus Fleischer writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2008\/06\/09\/rasmus-fleischer\/the-future-of-copyright\/\">The Future of Copyright<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The capacity of portable storage devices is increasing exponentially, much faster than Internet bandwidth, according to a principle known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=kryders-law\">Kryder&#8217;s Law<\/a>&#8220;. The information in our pockets yesterday was measured in megabytes, today in gigabytes, tomorrow in terabytes and in a few years probably in petabytes (an incredible amount of data). Within 10-15 years a cheap pocket-size media player will probably be able to store all recorded music that has ever been released &#8212; ready for direct copying to another person&#8217;s device.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: The sneakernet will come back if needed. &#8220;I believe this is a &#8216;wild card&#8217; that most people in the music industry are not seeing at all,&#8221; writes Swedish filesharing researcher Daniel Johansson. &#8220;When music fans can say, &#8216;I have all the music from 1950-2010, do you want a copy?&#8217; &#8212; what kind of business models will be viable in such a reality?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regardless of the mistakes the recording industry is making, I suspect the sneakernet will come back, at least for transferring large amounts of content.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of this quote I first heard in the mid-90&#8217;s:  &#8220;Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with CDs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ages ago (pre-1990), most computers weren&#8217;t connected to networks. You had to use sneakernet to transfer files &#8212; put them on a floppy disk, and walk to the other computer (in your sneakers). The rise of networking killed off sneakernet,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=374\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return of the sneakernet?<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","content-layout-full"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}