Steve Worona’s Comments

• Mar 13th, 2012 @ 8:54am

  Prior art

  on Delusions Of Grandeur: Yahoo Officially Sues Facebook, Laughably Argues That Facebook's Entire Model Is Based On Yahoo
  Before there was Yahoo and before there was Facebook there was The Globe at Cornell:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGlobe.com
  
  Others, too. Most, perhaps all, of these patents should never have been granted.
  
  The only thing more disruptive than the Internet is the broken patent office.
• Mar 12th, 2012 @ 9:37am

  The plural of "nerd" isn't "the tech industry"

  on 'Don't Get SOPA'd' Is The New Mantra On Capitol Hill
  It’s Citizens United taken to its perversely illogical conclusion: To politicians and lobbyists, not only are corporations people, they’re the only people.
  
  bit.ly/x2CzQy
• Mar 9th, 2012 @ 8:24pm

  When musicians hated Hollywood

  on Forget Home Taping: Evil Robots Are Killing Music!
  http://bit.ly/zD8iv2
• Mar 3rd, 2012 @ 8:58am

  Alternate headline

  on Lawsuit Against US Copyright Group For Fraud & Extortion Moves Forward
  Court won't reverse USCG troll charges.
• Feb 15th, 2012 @ 8:02am

  NYTimes reports "human error"

  on Sony Says Raising Prices On Whitney Houston Music Was A 'Mistake'
  http://tinyurl.com/7778arq
  
  According to two executives at Sony Music, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, the price increase was the result of an error by a Sony employee in Britain, and that the company gave no orders for prices to be raised on Ms. Houston’s music.
• Feb 14th, 2012 @ 9:55am

  Buying and selling

  on Why Music Is Not A Product & Three Reasons Why That's A Good Thing
  Re "You no longer have to sell fans what you want them to buy. You can sell them what they want to buy." This is the key distinction between business models based on monopoly control (i.e., Copyright) vs business models based on competition. It's why Apple invented iTunes while the labels were saying "You can't compete with free!"
• Feb 13th, 2012 @ 10:08am

  (untitled comment)

  on How Publishers Repeated The Same Mistake As Record Labels: DRM Obsession Gave Amazon Dominant Position
  If you can't imagine a business model not based on absolute control, you end up tying yourself to a railroad track.