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An open letter to Lily Allen
Spendid.
Dan Bull’s song:
Moby on the music business
Moby on music business
Cut yourself off from links, behind pay walls, and you cut yourself off from the internet and its real value.
“Putting content behind a wall cuts it off from search and links; they cut off your Googlejuice.”
Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works.
“A better approach is to have a general agreement among community members to treat others’ content, business and ideas with the same respect you would want them to treat yours.”
Just one word about the Gawker–WashPost controversy
Just one word, since you already know about it all.
One thing is missing from the WashPost argument: PageRank. Let me explain. By linking to the WashPost (3 times within the semi-lifted story), Gawker (PR8) has injected PageRank into the WashPost page (and site). As a result, soon, Google Search will feature more prominently the WashPost [...]
Against Intellectual Monopoly – by Michele Boldrin and David Levine
Against Intellectual Monopoly – by Michele Boldrin and David Levine
Credits (pdf)
Chapter 1: Introduction (pdf)
An overview of the central theme: intellectual property is in fact intellectual monopoly and hinders rather than helps innovation and creation.
Chapter 2: Creation Under Competition (pdf)
Would the world be devoid of great or lesser works of art without copyright?
Chapter 3: Innovation Under [...]
Copyright laws threaten our Internet freedom.
Op-Ed in the Financial Times against excessive copyright laws by the Pirate party’s member of the European parliament.
And, of course, I am “pirating” the article of the Financial Times.
Copyright laws threaten our online freedom.
By Christian Engström
Published: July 7 2009 18:10 | Last updated: July 7 2009 18:10
If you search for Elvis Presley in [...]
Download Home film (Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary film) = Descargar HOME película = Herunterladen HOME film = Télécharger film HOME
Download HOME film (Descargar HOME película, Herunterladen HOME film, Télécharger HOME film), Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film — The Earth From Above
Install any video capture software. (Video Download Helper, or else)
Go to the YouTube channel for the film “HOME” (The Earth From Above). Choose your language.
Click on “play” and click on HD —high definition.
Download the film to [...]
Tim O’Reilly says that book piracy is not a problem.
Comment on the New York Times:
Peter uses statistics reported by my company to argue that computer books are a canary in the coal mine, showing that piracy is hurting book sales. This is not true.
The decline in computer book sales has little or nothing to do with piracy, and everything to do with the consolidation [...]
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