I choose to look on the bright side - perhaps this young lady realizes that any moment in college not spent studying, drinking, or trying to hook up is totally wasted.
Every time I accidentally click a link to Salon, I get annoyed all over again by the intrusive ads. They may write great articles, but I'll never know.
If the magazines are free, I suspect they depend on people seeing the ads so that advertisers keep paying the magazine. Aren't you, then, taking money from the magazine by letting people view the content somewhere else?
I think the real point of her article is faulty logic - she claims that free content necessarily leads to the end of all professional art. This is like saying jumping out of a plane necessarily leads to dying on impact.
Saying that free content means no professional art is like denying the existence of parachutes. Having no professional art is ONE outcome, but it doesn't have to be the only one. People writing articles like hers aren't protecting the arts, they're whining about gravity.
I already left a comment at your blog, but in the interest of shameless self-promotion, I'll mention it here, too. Check out http://www.manfredmacx.com (or click my name), launching very soon. We're helping authors do exactly what you describe in your blog post. Posts and conversations like this one here at Techdirt were a big part of the inspiration for the site.
Doesn't the iPhone only show YouTube videos that have been converted to some proprietary format? If so, then there probably actually is a case against Apple if Apple is taking infringing videos from YouTube and converting them to iPhone format.
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Faulty logic
Saying that free content means no professional art is like denying the existence of parachutes. Having no professional art is ONE outcome, but it doesn't have to be the only one. People writing articles like hers aren't protecting the arts, they're whining about gravity.
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