So someone calls you up and says that they want to buy your company. You take a deep breath and then say, let’s talk… There are a lot of wrinkles in selling your business. The main one is that most people are so unused to the concept that they stumble at the first fence…. Imagine [...]
Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
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, [...]
While other media companies look at merging their broadcast and catalogue divisions with online broadband delivery companies, (Comcast & Universal) Jeff Bewkes the CEO of Time Warner is placing his bets on content distribution agreements. But just in case that doesn’t work, he’s placing a side bet on owning the distribution methodology, whatever that [...]
Sometimes when you are being serviced by a professional, you have to say “No, I don’t like what you are doing for me. I don’t like your charging regime and I certainly don’t like the lack of results that you are managing to achieve.” Most members of the public consider lawyers are Gods. They understand [...]
Part II In Part 1, I said that we considered that Hollywood would ignore the man in the street as irrelevent on the other side of the table at a file-sharing peace conference. That was our conclusion. That an industry body that represented the man in the street would fail in lobbying a solution. Anyone [...]
Well believe it or not, it’s not hard. Let me give you (for free) the benefit of the twenty-six years of online activity observation that I have undertaken. Lets first analyse why success on the Internet can be yours, without selling your soul to the content companies. There are three billion plus [...]
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 [...]
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Earlier this year we blogged about the fact that Pornography appeared to be decreasing on the internet due to the wide variety of other content available via the P2P networks. The other day we blogged about Facebook games as being an escape from the doom and gloom of the Global economy. Historically, there [...]