Slow Revolutions are better than overnight Coups.

In 1993, I wrote a paper entitled, How Ubiquitous Free Communication will Alter the Status Quo.   I noted that because of electronic chat rooms [Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve] as more women became enamoured of the connectivity options available to them via a ubiquitous global network, that the divorce rate would rise dramatically.   I [...]

Is Time Warner a Content Company a Service Provider or Just a Stock Promoter?

While other media companies look at merging their broadcast and catalogue divisions with online broadband delivery companies, (Comcast & Universal) Jeff Bewkes the CEO of Time Warner is placing his bets on content distribution agreements.   But just in case that doesn’t work, he’s placing a side bet on owning the distribution methodology, whatever that [...]

Why Blogs are taking over from the Media or the Big Secret of Social Networking.

Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days….   In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”,  – how the hell [...]

You Be The Judge – Time Warner – Destroyed or “MADE” by P2P?

We have noticed of Late that the US Judiciary don't seem to have all the facts pertainent to file sharing cases, relative to the issue of damages – or if they do, they are failing in their instructions to the Juries. Whether this is due to poor representation, or lack of adequately informed expert witnesses, [...]

P2P is aiding in lowering Crime.

Free-speech via the social networks and P2P would appear to be assisting in lowering the crime rate.   In the USA, Internet was an available public commentary resource before any other country in the western world.   1992 was the year that competition hit the USA with tremendous growth in pay-based online services, like Prodigy, [...]

P2P Politics

Part 1. – P2P is threatening the US Monetary system   It took humanity 25,000 years to create the “perfect financial system” and less than a hundred years to destroy it.   Perfect? Well that depends on who you are talking too.   For sometime, we at Perceptric have been saying that the world needs [...]

The Plus Side of File Sharing

We have mentioned independent film producers before. However, very few have publicly experimented with File sharing and then shared the results. Today, I found the accidental exception from November 2007. To Whom It May Concern: My name is Eric D. Wilkinson and I am the producer of a small independent film called “Jerome Bixby’s The [...]

I Don’t Believe in Co-incidences.

It appears that we now have a new Industry Rating Method. I call this rating the FIRM scale. Which Stands for Fakefile Interdiction Rating Method. Fake Files. If the Industry has a block buster on its hands then it floods the P2P networks with fake versions of those movies. My colleague Chris Gilbey and I [...]

James Howard Kunstler's View (courtesy www.321gold.com)

All Fall Down James Howard Kunstler Author of The Long Emergency Oct 7, 2008 God knows what manner of deals went down this past weekend in the Hamptons wine cellars and below-decks among the Chesapeake Bay sailboat fleet. All these hidey-holes must have been dank and fetid with the sweat of mortal fear. Will the [...]

Down the YouTube?

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Down the YouTube?

Mar 23rd 2007 | SAN FRANCISCO
From Economist.com

The online-video site gets a heavyweight competitor

IT HAS been a terrible month for Google, the biggest search engine and the internet’s reigning superpower, and for its subsidiary, YouTube, the pioneer and precocious leader of online video. Users may love them, but the old-media companies, feeling increasingly exploited, loathe them, sue them, and gang up on them. And that matters, because neither Google nor YouTube, as quintessential “new-media” companies, own any of the content that they organise so well.

With the announcement on Thursday March 22nd of a new online-video venture between NBC Universal, the huge media unit of General Electric, …