I just can’t believe that big business doesn’t yet understand the guaranteed formula for failure. Interdiction of an activity that is desired by the majority of the population will be met by alternative technological means. Each time Governments, Lobbyists and the partnered Judiciary (well they have no choice really, most judicial appointments are [...]
N.B.: It has been strongly suggested to me that many of the conclusions drawn by the following article are incorrect. Specifically http://blog.icann.org/2007/11/there-are-not-13-root-servers/ My knowledge of these subjrcts is somewhat aged and possibly incorrect. Readers should draw their own conclusions. I would add: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/printfriendly.htm?AT=61964200-39001260c The key to the U.S. government's influence is a master list of [...]
If you have a look at the chart that is featured below you will immediately see that there is a lot of repetition. The same artists appear again and again, and the same titles appear multiple times, often with different mixes that differentiate them, but sometimes as slightly different versions that may have a difference [...]
Researchers unfortunately are usually researching outside of known frontiers. That’s why they call it “Research”. Just like the explorers of old, researchers go forth to prove their premise and as a result are awarded a Doctorate or a consulting contract. Unfortunately, because Researchers work in uncharted territory, so much of their work has to be [...]
Enterprises want things to change. They want more sales, more profits, less overhead, market domination (by us, not them). A lot of things that require change. But a lot of people want things to remain exactly as they are too. They want all that stuff, but they don’t realize one critical point. You can only [...]
The definition of coincidence is interesting to contemplate. Have P2P’ers notice the remarkable coincidental disappearance of the majority of fake files and malware ridden content since media Defender laid its little head down ? And interestingly enough, it was the content industry that was paying them to infect our computers and waste our [...]
Interesting news feeds from the Wall St Journal today: Here are a couple of topics: Overall DVD sales are stalling – Unit sales fell 4.2% Q3 year on year and 1.7% down in Q2. And at the same time more titles are hitting the shelves…. they had better be hoping for a really long tail! [...]
Big record labels are worried about digital downloads and swaps. They claim it costs them money. It does too. But perhaps the tactics they take in fighting back hurt just as badly. Remember the subpoena and courtroom raids on moms and kids over Napster downloads? Attack the fans, we can call that. It just made [...]