Re: Smart Mobs

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 19:39:49 MDT


> (Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>):
>
> What worries me most right now isn't theft, but that the fear of theft
> leads to a closing of technology in order to protect obsolete business
> plans. If the record industry is saved at the price of the ability to do
> arbitrary computations or the possibility for ordinary people to be
> media producers, then it has not been worth it.

...And all the more tragic when the actions we take to save the industry--
if they do that at all, for which there is precious little evidence--do so
not for the benefit of the creators whose work we want to encourage, but
only to the benefit of middlemen who rightly deserve to lose their jobs
as technology makes them obsolete.

-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC


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