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| DATE | 2008-05-17 |
| FROM | email
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] What's a Pirate
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a guy with a peg leg, eye patch and a pet parrot
only two more to go Ruben!
Ruben Safir wrote:
> May 17, 2008 What's Online Frustrating the Pirates By DAN MITCHELL
>
> DISPENSING with the bluster that normally surrounds the issue of pirated
> movies and music, Anders Bylund of Ars Technica tries to appeal to
> business sense in arguing that media companies should stop suing their
> potential customers and instead try to serve them (arstechnica.com).
>
> Media piracy will always be with us. But the pirates, Mr. Bylund writes,
> “can be beaten — it happens all the time — but not primarily by
> means of legal threats and lawsuits.†Rather, he says: “You subjugate
> these rebels with the tools of free enterprise. Piracy is just another
> business model, and the pirates will lose and go away when you come up
> with a better model.â€
>
> Consumers make buying decisions based on three factors, according to
> Mr. Bylund: “price, convenience and quality.†Pirates will always win
> on price (free), but media companies can and do beat them on the other
> factors. Among the examples he cites is the cable channel Comedy Central,
> owned by Viacom (comedycentral.com). The Web site offers the complete
> archives of “The Daily Show†and makes them searchable. Hulu, owned
> by NBC and Fox, offers many television shows and some movies with limited
> (and short) advertisements (hulu.com). All are offered in high-quality
> video.
>
> But it should not stop there, Mr. Bylund says. “Figure out an
> ad-supported model if you can, or charge less than a dollar per
> episode. Let people burn it to DVD or play the file on iPhones
> for a buck.†Eventually, “piracy will force all the big-time
> content producers to move in this kind of direction,†Mr. Bylund
> says. “Capitalism, properly applied, will beat the rebels every time.â€
>
> A GREAT TIME WASTER Slate does not mean to insult anyone when it
> says that this week’s package on procrastination “will appeal to
> every single person reading the magazine.†Even if you are not a
> procrastinator, maybe you long to be. Or, failing that, you surely know
> someone who procrastinates. And if you are a can-do, industrious type,
> Daniel Gross’s “Lazy Money†guide to investing in companies that
> appeal to procrastination — purveyors of tobacco, coffee, Web sites,
> online video and even this newspaper — might be for you (slate.com).
>
> Other articles in the package include “Procrastinators Without Borders:
> Do the Japanese Waste More Time Than We Do?†by Heather Smith; “Like
> There’s No Tomorrow: How Economists Think About Procrastination,†by
> Ray Fisman; and a manifesto, “Procrasti-Nation: Workers of the World,
> Slack Off!â€
>
> THOSE DARNED KIDS “Web 2.0†has forgotten about the Internet,
> according to Allan Leinwand, a venture capitalist writing at GigaOM. All
> the social networks, big blog sites, video hosts and wikis out there may
> yawn when “router-hugging relics of the past century†tell them they
> need to pay attention to basics, Mr. Leinwand says. But when things break
> down, they will wish they knew as much about the Internet’s underlying
> technology as they do about Python, Ajax and all the other software that
> is used to create Web 2.0 sites. Those error messages that routinely show
> up on MySpace and AllMusic could well be thanks to a young programmer’s
> lack of adequate Web 1.0 knowledge (gigaom.com).
>
> HAPPENS ALL THE TIME A frequently asked question that was posted until
> recently on the child labor section of the Georgia Department of Labor’s
> Web site read: “I am a 17-year-old teacher with a Ph.D. in physics. I
> am married and have a child. Do I need a work permit?†The bizarre
> made-up question was finally removed, but still shows up in Google’s
> cache, and a screen shot can be found at tinypic.com. DAN MITCHELL
>
>
> -- http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff http://www.nylxs.com -
> Leadership Development in Free Software
>
> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like
> Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world -
> RI Safir 1998
>
> http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS -
> RI Safir 2002
>
> "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
>
> "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers
> to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in
> our own society."
>
> "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be
> damned.< You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and
> technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in
> Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."
>
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