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April 6, 2003
news on piracy and social software
I relaxed most of the day today. Information seemed to permeate the web rather slowly. Some of the things that I did take time to look at were:
Piracy:
The RIAA is going after a few students at a couple major universities for piracy. Even though the students probably won't pay the $98.6 billion dollars they are being sued for, the RIAA has decided to use this opportunity to make an example of them. Note: The Detroit Freepress has their math wrong. I know people have echo'd the similar sentiments but for repetitions sake let me just say that piracy is wrong but outmoded business models also need to adjust with the times. The most likely ways I see this going is either a) laws completely obliterate peoples' freedom to use products the way they want resulting in a "bite the hand that feeds you" effect or b) the companies evolve with the needs of their customers (notice I did not say consumers).
Social Software:
mamamusing's has some commentary on some things said about social software. I've been quite interested lately in the concepts of social software motivated a bit by Doc Searls and Joi Ito and their discussions relating to empowering people through the web. I think a lot of great ideas are being thrown around.
I may be naive but I believe empowering people with software and the net has great potential. I do however think that the mass of information is reacted to similar to spam. The noise starts to drown out the signal.
Posted by beamz at April 6, 2003 12:44 AM