On your lunch break? Not on your lunch break? Don’t have a lunch break? Good! Then block off 40 minutes for this absolutely riveting discussion on piracy, and what media companies can do to combat it. (Hint: Compete against it. Smart!)
Some guy named Matt Mason gave a Speech (I meant to capitalize that, Doug) last month at The Medici Summit (WHERE BUSINESS & INNOVATION INTERSECT) telling companies that piracy isn’t going to magically disappear, nor can you sue it out of existence. He goes through a mini-history of the subject, from pirate radio stations to BBS’s filled with software to modern-day BitTorrent sites. The long and short of it is that companies need to go the iTunes route and compete against piracy on a value level. (iTunes gave consumers a fast and convenient way to buy music from a Trusted Source.)
I don’t know, interesting in the “hey, I’ve got nothing better to do” sense.
One hour till Champions League. Looking forward to a Liverpool/Chelsea and ManU/Barça semifinals.
Certainly speaks the truth.
Napster, the biggest mistake of the “plastic disc” industry
Liked the comments on vista :) But he said Linux is hard to install and people buy Vista because its easier (yes, if you enjoy torturing yourself).
The odd thing is he had the Ubuntu logo in the presentation, but failed to mention Ubuntu competing with Windows. Ie the make it simple front.