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Posted by Warm Worm on January 2, 2008, 12:15 am
Michael Bulatovich wrote:
>>>> Is your post's title copyrighted? ;)
>>>>
>>>> "There is evidence that the darknet will continue to exist and provide
>>>> low cost, high-quality service to a large group of consumers. This means
>>>> that in many markets, the darknet will be a competitor to legal
>>>> commerce. From the point of view of economic theory, this has profound
>>>> implications for business strategy: for example, increased security
>>>> (e.g. stronger DRM systems) may act as a disincentive to legal commerce.
>>>> Consider an MP3 file sold on a web site: this costs money, but the
>>>> purchased object is as useful as a version acquired from the darknet.
>>>> However, a securely DRM-wrapped song is strictly less attractive:
>>>> although the industry is striving for flexible licensing rules,
>>>> customers will be restricted in their actions if the system is to
>>>> provide meaningful security. This means that a vendor will probably
>>>> make more money by selling unprotected objects than protected objects.
>>>> In short, if you are competing with the darknet, you must compete on the
>>>> darknet's own terms: that is convenience and low cost rather than
>>>> additional security."
>>>> -- http://www.bearcave.com/misl/misl_tech/msdrm/darknet.htm
>>>>
>>>> I've viewed Part 1, and there's now a Part 2:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/faq.php
>>>> "...While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream
>>>> media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between
>>>> the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already
>>>> lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?
>>>> Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied
>>>> against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in
>>>> order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against
>>>> filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy
>>>> and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to
>>>> destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and
>>>> exchange our creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in
>>>> bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think
>>>> 'after intellectual property', think creatively about the future of
>>>> distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main
>>>> goal."
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319276,00.html
>>>> "The film [Outfoxed] says this pervasive bias contradicts the channel's
>>>> claim of being 'Fair and Balanced', and argues that Fox News has been
>>>> engaging in what amounts to consumer fraud."
>>>> -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfoxed
>>>>
>>>> We'll leave the fear-mongering to Fox, the RIAA, the MPAA, Don et al..
>>>> ;)
>>>>
>>>> Related Links:
>>>> http://www.updocfilms.com/
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.org
>>>> http://www.plos.org/
>>>> http://www.eff.org/
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_P2P
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend-to-friend
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_monetary_system
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE
>>>>
>>> Did you watch that holiday movie that Secretia posted a while back?
>> No, are you suggesting it's worth a watch? What was it again?
>
> Don't know you well enough to steer you to that one.
Well your mere mention of it seems like a bit of a steer. :)
> I did watch it, and while I did find it had glaring mistakes in it, it was
thought provoking in
> some ways...I'm still sifting through it's resonances...
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