I am sure that we have all been victims or observed the playground bully at work.And some of my readers may even have pulled wings off fly’s. I’m ashamed to admit that I did. Although I am pleased to announce that my magnifying glass torturing of ants and fly’s ceased when I was about 9.As [...]
Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence. Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]
The Berne Convention (of September 9, 1886) was formed for the purpose of protecting intellectual property. It has been quoted by most American Politicians for the last 10 years as the reason why America needs to get tough with the P2P community. Its interesting, that the United States only became a signatory to [...]
On Neil Diamonds Album, Hot August Night, he calls out… Hello out there Tree People….. His words – which impressed me over thirty years ago are obviously an acknowledgement by Neil, that even the non-paying tree people had a value, by adding to the carnival atmosphere of the concert and were therefore worthy of [...]
Since 1999, World War III has been raging, slowly escalating in ferocity and intensity as a result of each battle. It is a war between the content industry and the public the world over. The battle lines were drawn when the industry decided to stamp out P2P by squashing Napster. BMG, one of the [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of the content industry owning shares in the broadband networks and that if they did – then P2P was merely another distribution channel. Today, I will revisit the scenario, but this time from the perspective of policy makers. Consider, if you will, the role of [...]
Hollywood is not the only casualty of P2P. In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be argued that pornography is as old [...]