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 [...]
This is the third article in this series entitled: The Economics of Video Entertainment Part 1 Here Part 2 Here For the last couple of days I’ve been leading up to talking about the individual value proposition as to why people purchase, watch, read or listen to certain types of content. Hedonic pricing [...]
An anecdotal statistical examination of music industry potential income with no file sharing. The music industry have managed to convince global Governments that they should have special protectionist legislation enacted. No-one has bothered to have a look at the logic behind their claims. Forget file sharing for a moment. The question should be, [...]
The RIAA is about to offload it’s position of most globally hated industry body onto the mantle of our elected representatives. Which country? Well they’re starting with the ACTA participants. And they’re doing a damn fine job. Against all the evidence, they have managed to convince the US Congress who in [...]
We have previously stated that P2P downloads of English movies are acting as a valuable ambassador of the English language and consumer lifestyle trends to the worlds hungriest P2P market, China. Today, we will be discussing that Cable Broadcasting stalwart, the World Movie Channel. Anyone who subscribes to the World Movies Channel will [...]
In the USA we see the RIAA take action against the ilk of the Pirate Bay and solo parent mothers and individual students. But when was the last time they actually took on the RICO organized crime DVD distributors? The RICO funded, managed and controlled Web sites advertising hundreds of movies for once only [...]
The term “Dark Ages” was originally intended to denote the entire period between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance period. Our history is full of injustices that we look upon in our history books with some surprise – but how could the people have allowed that to happen? History lists [...]
Chess Politics Heritage & History Europe is invariably the western worlds Tourist Mecca. The combination of multiple civilizations, cuisines, objects d’art and other intellectual and historical candy, acts as a powerful magnet to the worlds middle class and of course the college student backpackers, seeking the meaning of life. But the multiple borders [...]
No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his property, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor shall we go against him or send against him, unless by legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land. What Law of the land says that you [...]
Since 1973 (when I sent my first CQ CQ CQ on Father Allardyce’s ham radio at St Patricks College in Silverstream, NZ) I have officially been a geek. This was compounded during my University days in New Zealand, Australia and Hungary where I joined every radio club available. In Hungary radio clubs were [...]