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As much of a completely disgusting sleazebag as I think he is, at some level I grudgingly have to admire Larry Flynt. He never misses an opportunity for self-promotion and annoying the hell out of politicians, and he's back now, promoting himself and annoying the hell out of politicians.
This time…
Via Bora, a very interesting essay by Danah Boyd about class divisions in social networking sites:
Over the last six months, i've noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That's only partially true. There is indeed a change taking…
In the first post, I talked about how factual data aren't creative works, and how compiling them into collections doesn't make them creative - at least in the US.
This aspect of data rips away the core "incentive" provided by copyright law to creators: the right to sue people who make copies. It…
I'd like to pick up a little where I left off in my last posting on social networking. In that post, I was highlighting a post by Wayne Bivens-Tatum on how he prefers to interact in online environments. Or more precisely, how he prefers not to get too deeply involved.
Wayne's points are well…
I doubt the decline in sales has anything to do with user-generated porn, so much as it does with piracy.
bitorrent?
Pirate theft isn't very capitalist, so I'd say the title is still accurate.
There are actually a number of libertarians that don't believe in intellectual property (Stephan Kinsella is one on the right and Kevin Carson is one on the left). I don't have a firm position, but I lean in that direction. I simply don't trust the state enough for it to handle those kinds of issues and I would expect market actors to figure out ways of capturing the value they create under different policy regimes. I'd like to see empirical evidence on the effect of IP on innovation, but there don't seem to be many definitive studies on it.
thanks so much for the porno website its better than www.redtube.com!
I doubt the decline in sales has anything to do with user-generated porn, so much as it does with piracy.
Posted by: B.B | October 27, 2007 9:34 AM
Its all about the booty. arrr