Yep, the other day, my partner brought home a newspaper from Franklins.I asked her, of course, “Why did you buy that?”“I didn’t” she replied, “They offered it to me free because I spent more than five dollars and I only got it so we could line the pet cages.”So there you have it. SMH has [...]
Isn’t interesting that industries that use outdated business models tend to die. In the 1800’s Candle and Tallow makers were fearful of their futures and even in two hundred years ago, there were people that paid out on the protectionist industry. The following is copied in toto from http://www.panarchy.org/bastiat/petition.eng.1845.html Read it, cogitate [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]
Or – How to increase Record Sales…… A few years ago (1994), a well known Australian journalist told me the secret of Journalism. “Tom, if you want to get published, just have something contrary to say about someone famous or a hot political subject and every journo in the land will want to ‘quote [...]
Its winter in Australia. Supposedly the coldest time of the year. Yet my Serrissa Foetida’s (tree of a thousand stars) are all in full bloom. Can’t be much of a winter if my Bonsai are all convinced that it’s already spring. So if it’s still winter, and it’s already this warm, will there be a [...]
Some time ago we blogged about the resources on the network and how the global file sharing filebase was in fact the worlds largest data archive. It would appear that others have a similar idea. Pirate Bay looks like it is going to give credit for storing of content, in other words the [...]
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 [...]
Tonights blog is short. In response to President Obama hiring 5 ex RIAA lawyers and increasing the per infringement amount to $150,000 per, we give you – The List. AppleJuice Halite DC++ Freenet iMesh Ares LimeWire dctc Acquisition Apollon KCEasy Localhost Dolda Connect Acqlite Grokster BitTorrent MLDonkey Elise Apollon Kazaa ABC MonoTorrent fulDC Cabos [...]
Today’s article is only for open minded individuals. If you consider that all conspiracy theories are garbage and are not open to the what, why, how and when, then please go and join a monastery and put in a request to come back in the next life as an ostrich. The content industry has [...]
When we think of ubiquity, we think sunshine, ocean, sand, air and more recently, unfortunately pollution. If we personalize ubiquity, we think of people, clothes, food, cars, football/baseball (the lack of every night on Tele). If you were Bill Gates, you might think of the number of Microsoft Operating Systems that you have sold as [...]