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30-11-02, 07:36 AM | #1 | |
Madame Comrade
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Resistance is futile
Here is an excellent essay on p2p by Robert X. Cringely:
Resistance is Futile How Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Is Likely to Change Big Media He makes an interesting comparasion between today's media monopolies and the situation in oil business in the 1920s when the Anglo-Persian Oil Company had a monopoly on oil production in the Middle East. When the Gulf Oil Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, got into Kuwait and obtained a license to search oil from the Al-Sabah family, the ruling monopolists tried all sorts of dirty tricks to delay the inevitable... Quote:
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