____/ [H]omer on Friday 15 February 2008 02:32 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>> R.E.M. open-sources its music videos: The future of content?
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> The list gets longer... and all big-name bands too!
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> Between this and the rush away from DRM, I'd say the RIAA are finished.
It's the Cathedral's dilemma. Oracle faces similar threats and so does
Microsoft. Free code and free content can be exchanged very easily.
Communication also facilitates better collaboration (SVN/CVS, YouTube, legal
P2P), so 'the little people' needn't rely on the monarchs or the middlemen.
The fine thing about this type of capitalism is that the artist of coder
is /paid directly/ for things like services and concerts. There are
no 'funnels' in between (you know, that thing which accumulates heaps of
liquidated cash and lets the artistic types drink from a narrow end, if it
feels like it).
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