If Paul were more of a cheapskate he would do what I did when I left Wired and didn't want to leave my 12 gigs of MP3s behind... Purchase a $190 20GB slim Fire Wire hard drive. Not having to have to play the music makes it a lot cheaper. Plus I don't mind leaving it at friends' houses while they copy off what they want and copy on what they want me to have.

What about Cory's claim that the movie studios are a bunch of chicken littles, and they have no more to worry about from file sharing than they did with VCRs and television before them?

I think both Internet and sneakernet are viable approaches for high bandwidth data. Ultimately, the Internet will win, of course, but moving around media works well now.

MP3's are cool, but movies are clearly next. MPEG-4 can get a perfectly viewable movie on a CD, which is about $.20 worth of media. You can also imagine a hybrid between an iPod and one of those portable LCD players, perfectly suited to making this data even more mobile. With FireWire, it's, what? 5 minutes to move a movie across? That's pretty compelling.