INTENT MediaWorks Testifies Before the U.S. Senate About the Future of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File-Sharing Technologies
Washington, D.C. - June 23, 2004
Today, INTENT MediaWorks LLC, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, chaired by Senator John McCain, (R-AZ),about the future of Peer-to-Peer, (P2P) technologies. > Witness List
”The era in which a few media companies control the ability of artists to reach their fans and fans who are compelled to listen, view and read limited choices of content may be coming to an end,” explained Les Ottolenghi, President of INTENT MediaWorks, at the US Senate hearing. Regardless, of P2P’s ultimate fate, new media distribution has emerged and will clearly grow with great commercial enthusiasm as long as computer networks exist and fans demand new music, films and books.
”P2P file sharing has made a great success out of numerous recording and film artists,” said Ottolenghi. INTENT has over 5,000 artistic works of music, books and film that it distributes over P2P for promotion and sale to more than 80 million global consumers each month.
Artists using P2P, through proper distribution means like INTENT MediaWorks, are gaining great commercial success. Many artists are making money for the first time selling their works online and all of them are gaining enormous exposure and a huge fan base.
P2P is the file sharing part of the Internet that enables individual computer users to exchange files such as music, videos, films and books with each other. INTENT MediaWorks is a distributor of legal content among users of P2P software applications. INTENT offers content owners of digital media, (i.e. music, film, video and written works), the opportunity for wide distribution through P2P in a safe and secure manner.
INTENT clients are typically independent artists seeking to market, promote and commercialize their works, directly to Internet consumers. INTENT also works with large and small businesses wanting to distribute corporate information at the lowest possible cost.
The reasons most often cited by clients for utilizing the company’s services are the enormous potential for content exposure and distribution to consumers, the minimal cost, and the unique efficiency not available in any other way.
During his two hours of Senate Committee testimony, Ottolenghi explained that while in the past P2P has been associated with operations like Napster, ”Things have changed. Despite well publicized law suits brought against individuals who have traded unauthorized copies of digital music and video files, P2P has thousands of legitimate, legal and safe artistic offerings for proper consumption,” said Ottolenghi in his testimony before the hearing.
Notwithstanding the lack of mainstream marketing, P2P promotion and distribution of independent and lesser known artists grows at an exponential rate each month. Commercial success of independent artists through P2P is evident in increased incomes from $500.00 a week to more than $5000 a week.
There is an association of digitally distributed artists forming due to the lack of distribution opportunities offline for new artists, the demand of diverse media tastes from the general public and the success so many content creators are having through P2P and the Web.
P2P software companies like Altnet and Trustyfiles Inc. have created the secure means for consumers to find legal, safe and secure content. INTENT MediaWorks has agreements with both Altnet and Trustyfiles Inc.
Full text of INTENT MediaWorks, LLC’s submission of written testimony to the United States Senate can be found at www.senate.gov, by request from info@intentmediaworks.com and over any P2P network.
INTENT MediaWorks is a member of the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA).