: Is the Information Revolution Dead?

[Xman]

Through another board I've found this very interesting article in two parts on various topics ranging from very general (the internet revolution) to very specific (Hollywood, napster, etc.) A snip:

"Hollywood needs to offer a legal and suitable, legitimate opportunity for downloading movies so the 350,000 people who go through all kinds of contortions that do put your little troubles of getting on the Internet trivialize -- make it trivial in comparison.

But they do it because that's their only alternative. What is the legal alternative to doing it illegally? What is the legal alternative of downloading music more than a trivial percentage of the content available? What is the service that they have licensed to provide that legal alternative with? It's not available. So I would say to Mr. Valenti, "You're leaving me no choice. I either curl up and go to Tower Records and buy the $16 CD so I can have the one song that I want, or you drive me to Morpheus or the brothers of Morpheus."


Eqally interesting is Hollywood vs. High-Tech