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Current Topic: Intellectual Property

Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers
Topic: Intellectual Property 10:41 am EDT, Sep 14, 2003

Yeah, you need to have a registration, but it's quick and free -- use a hotmail account. Article makes some interesting statements.

First about modern amercan business:
] "The quintessential American company was Enron, which
] made nothing," said Neal Gabler, author of "Life the
] Movie." In today's culture, he added, "the product is
] almost immaterial; it's the consciousness about it."

then touching on digital morality (and then a major reason why being a computer professional has lost it's cache):
] "What the Internet does is, it pries everything out of
] moral context and lets people feel knowing about it," he
] said, because the skills used to cut and paste something
] with a computer are more valued than those used to
] manufacture it.

and we can't forget the FUCKING MORON ON THE STREET section:
] On a recent morning on Canal Street, crowds of shoppers,
] most past their undergraduate years, brought the metaphor
] to life, plucking up fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Kate
] Spade handbags. A New Jersey woman named Linda Dorian,
] plumping for two bootleg Vuittons, compared her purchases
] to downloading music. "Somehow everybody seems to be
] making out," she said. "I don't see any poor rock stars.
] I don't see any poor designers."

This lady is why file sharing is as big a problem as it is, not because of geeks and college students. There's no poor rock stars, you moron, because the "STARS" already sold a lot of records. But poor musicians are out of sight and out of mind.

Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers


Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content
Topic: Intellectual Property 11:51 am EDT, Sep 10, 2003

Micropayments, small digital payments of between a quarter and a fraction of a penny, made (yet another) appearance this summer with Scott McCloud's online comic, The Right Number, accompanied by predictions of a rosy future for micropayments.

To read The Right Number, you have to sign up for the BitPass micropayment system; once you have an account, the comic itself costs 25 cents.

BitPass will fail, as FirstVirtual, Cybercoin, Millicent, Digicash, Internet Dollar, Pay2See, and many others have in the decade since Digital Silk Road, the paper that helped launch interest in micropayments. These systems didn't fail because of poor implementation; they failed because the trend towards freely offered content is an epochal change, to which micropayments are a pointless response.

... The interesting questions are ... how much better collaborative filters will become in locating freely offered material.

Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content


FOXNews.com - Top Stories - 12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading
Topic: Intellectual Property 10:21 am EDT, Sep  9, 2003

] The music industry has turned its big legal guns on
] Internet music-swappers - including a 12-year-old
] New York City girl who thought downloading songs was fun.
]
] Brianna LaHara said she was frightened to learn she was
] among the hundreds of people sued yesterday by giant
] music companies in federal courts around the country.

FOXNews.com - Top Stories - 12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading


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