Almost all technological and social change (whether "authorized" or not) seems aimed at making things more efficient, and sometimes that means eliminating middlemen. People like Castle and the big labels that are not adapting are these middlemen. Their roles in the the art and content ecosystem are no longer necessary. It is true, they are stuck in a time and place when they were king, and now fighting for their existence. They will lose. Free Culture as social movement is bigger than it has ever been, and it's just too big of a tide to turn around. There is no regulation, DRM software, imagined right, or luddite that can stop it.
I remember when news was delivered on carved stone tablets. These are obviously of much higher quality than flimsy, ephemeral paper. We should go back to stone tablets.
"Those of us who are print junkies are just praying for that."
You can pray or you can actually modify your business model. Soon, all of the "print junkies" will all die of old age. What then? I challenge you to make the news business sustainable after all of the "print junkies" are gone, just like the car companies have survived (or were born out of, rather) the passing of the buggy whip or the scribes who still found something to do after the invention of the printing press.
What we will actually see if most newspapers suck in this mindset die off and the local news sites who remain hyper local with a main focus in online news to take the share of available opportunities.
I do a lot of my critical thinking thanks to Techdirt, which is found on the internet. I would not have not known about the last 50 books I read if it were not for the internet. If reading for pleasure has declined, how do you explain the success of books like Harry Potter series or Twilight?
Young innovators don't want or feel they need patents because that would stifle them at their early stages, and their challenge is to innovate despite others' patents and without their own patents . But as a company grows and you get boards of directors and lawyers involved, the lawyers want to validate their practice of predatory suits, so of course they will say IP defense is important.
Just because something is illegal means it is immoral or wrong. But you can have the opposite: immoral laws. We have been programmed to believe that illegal is immoral. Is freedom of religion or interracial marriage immoral? No, but in some places and times, they were. Don't assume that any law is moral. What we have here is a violation of a business model.
How can anyone continue to rely on the competitive advantages of the past? Computers were designed to make copies, and that is what they will always do. Adapt or die.
I have $1000 worth of Monster cables in my studio that I purchased many years ago. I love them, but I do not share their opinion that they need to sue or license the use anyone who uses the word Monster in a trademark. They should not have been granted a trademark on the word Monster by itself, only on "Monster Cable." In his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljEelGaB3bE, Noel Lee even tries to make the case that only he can use the name Monster for mints that he "invented!" I hope this case sheds some light on this subject and trademark laws get reformed.
How about the delivery truck companies that made money from delivering CDs? How about the CD duplicating plants that make money no matter how many CDs actual sell? How about the paper companies that sell to music magazines that write about music? What about the employee who works and earns a larger amount of money for the company that what he or she is getting paid? They need to stop being jealous of the business they are not in.
I heard the same stupid argument by a person considering hiring a PR company. The guy was actual concerned about the PR company gaining notoriety in the PR community because of the good work that they might do for him as a client, and that this might somehow take away from the services that he would actually be obtaining.
I think it should be noted that this is only possible with GPS systems that can "call home" and send the GPS data to a server provider (such as OnStar or the telecoms). Your basic $100-$500 stand-alone GPS unit is not going to do this. It may keep your previous routes in it's internal memory, but it will probably not track you if you have not told it to. Even then, we could get to the point where police pull you over, ask to see your GPS, and then try to use your previous whereabouts against you. I think the ability to keep GPS data private within the device is going to be a new feature of GPS units very soon.
Consumers enjoyment is a tertiary benefit. The Olympics is primarily for sponsors to advertise and secondarily for NBC to profit and toot its own horn. We should just be happy just to get the table scraps of this grand display of capitalism.
The spread of child porn, music and film that violates copyright, and hate speech NEED to be the collaterally damage that is experienced in order to insure liberty and freedom. Karma will take care of the violators in the long run.
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Putt
Who are the other entities that are required to abide by the law? Gun makers? Paper and pen makers (when I write something that has copyright)? It seem the logic is that if it seems that software can stop these types of things, that companies like eBay should build it. But that that would keep legitimate auctions from taking place hassle free. Policing every action does not scale. Allowing auctions like these to take place the cost of being allowed to play in the free market.
Not having a resellers agreement sounds like the "violation of a business model," not something that is law enforceable. And what about the First Sales Doctrine?
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"Those of us who are print junkies are just praying for that."
You can pray or you can actually modify your business model. Soon, all of the "print junkies" will all die of old age. What then? I challenge you to make the news business sustainable after all of the "print junkies" are gone, just like the car companies have survived (or were born out of, rather) the passing of the buggy whip or the scribes who still found something to do after the invention of the printing press.
What we will actually see if most newspapers suck in this mindset die off and the local news sites who remain hyper local with a main focus in online news to take the share of available opportunities.
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Just because something is illegal means it is immoral or wrong. But you can have the opposite: immoral laws. We have been programmed to believe that illegal is immoral. Is freedom of religion or interracial marriage immoral? No, but in some places and times, they were. Don't assume that any law is moral. What we have here is a violation of a business model.
How can anyone continue to rely on the competitive advantages of the past? Computers were designed to make copies, and that is what they will always do. Adapt or die.
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/bad analogy
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I heard the same stupid argument by a person considering hiring a PR company. The guy was actual concerned about the PR company gaining notoriety in the PR community because of the good work that they might do for him as a client, and that this might somehow take away from the services that he would actually be obtaining.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Putt
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