Jonathan Coulton is a very smart man.
JoCo: Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
“depraved indifference to the consequences of one’s actions”
Boing Boing‘s Cory Doctorow on Consumerist: Even though a substantial portion of my living comes from the entertainment industry, I don’t think that any amount of “piracy” justifies this kind of depraved indifference to the consequences of one’s actions. Big Content haven’t just declared war on Boing Boing and Reddit and the rest of the [...]
“an interest in preserving the status quo”
The Harvard Business Review: SOPA and PIPA are prime examples of big companies trying to do everything they can to stop new competitors from innovating. They’re also examples of how lobbying in the United States has become one of the most effective ways of limiting this sort of competition. But one characteristic is the same [...]
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