Alternatives to Second Life
Recently, I’ve blogged a few times about the issues I see with Second Life, both technical and structural. (Here’s some of my SL posts.) On his weblog, Onder…
Category: digital rights
Why DRM drives piracy
Jim Baen explains the connection between DRM & piracy, and why DRM doesn’t stop, but foster piracy: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an “economic…
YouTube pays labels for pirated songs, cuts content deals with BBC
A lot’s been happening around YouTube during the last couple of days. First there were news about YouTube paying labels and content owners a share of the ad…
Mesh networks & “over the top” services to fly under the Net Neutrality radar
Like Skype & basically all file-sharing networks, Joost streams its content via peer-to-peer technology. Shelly Palmer has some good notes about the disruptive powers “over the top” services,…
re:publica program is online
The conference program for re:publica 07 (April 11-13, 2007, Berlin, upcoming.org link) is online. (Sorry – German only, so far.) If you happen to be in Berlin at…
“Piracy is Progressive Taxation…”
“… and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution” is the title of an essay Tim O’Reilly wrote in 2002. Occasionally I re-read it, and every single…
Anti-Lock In Law for web apps?
The more web apps we use, and the better they are, the more we trust them with our data. Apart from all privacy issues: Lock-in is becoming more…