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Some good quotes…

By Chris Gilbey

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more, is a congress – John Adams 2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain   3. Suppose you were an [...]

Corporate Thugs Knocking at Your Door?

By Tom Koltai

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 [...]

FUD versus Positive Reporting – A model for Print Media.

By Tom Koltai

Yesterday I creamed News Limited for fake and political reporting, targeted at influencing the outcome of the iiNet trial currently underway.   They used non-empirical data and ancient quotes from an misnamed organisation all designed to create FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.   That’s what the media these days considers is what is necessary for [...]

The Content Industry Is Going South.

By Chris Gilbey

A white paper has recently been published by the Australian Film Television And Radio School written by Jennifer Wilson. It is called The Digital Deadlock. In it Jennifer lays out some of the problems facing the content industry and the people in it, and the people who want to use content. but are faced with [...]

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

By Tom Koltai

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, [...]

RIAA inadvertently Creates New Compilation Album, the Tenenbaum Collection

By Tom Koltai

“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”.   The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]

Ideas, Trust, and P2P

By Chris Gilbey

Some people have attributed to Albert Einstein the concept that “compound interest is the greatest force know to man”. Or words like it. Some years ago in my singularly unsuccessful book, “The Infinite Digital Jukebox” I said that the music business couldn’t fight the two greatest forces known to man – the laws of physics [...]

P2P Politics

By Tom Koltai

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 (R)evolution That Is Coming Thanks To P2P

By Chris Gilbey

I am reading a fascinating book. It is called “The Age Of The Unthinkable – why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what to do about it”. Written by Joshua Cooper Ramo. This book is like the Tipping Point (if you read that) of national security. Ramo discusses the way that in the [...]

Ecommerce in Australia Stuffed – Or is that about to Change

By Tom Koltai

A section of my Introduction to the  Responses to Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper By Thomas P. Koltai, on Behalf of Perceptric Pty. Ltd.   Submitted 10th of February – Before the Governments National FTTH rollout announcement and before the ACCC ruling against Telstra on last mile local loop. – A section of my [...]