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Thursday, January 8, 2004 |
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Those innovators at Network Solutions have a new pitch: they want me to pay them an annual fee to keep my personal info on record with them from "spammers, telemarketers, identity thieves, harassers, stalkers and others who access this database." Guys, I think you should just be doing this as a matter of ethical business practices, especially at the inflated prices you charge... Comments [ ] 11:41:36 AM 
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Steve Jobs likes Bill Gates according to BusinessWeek. Jobs sent Gates a $200 gift certificate to try out iTunes for Windows... wonder if it made it through the attachment virus filters at Microsoft? I sent one to my stepson and it didn't get through his company's mail filters... Comments [ ] 11:32:36 AM
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Aaron Swartz: "What’s the unifying theme behind Apple’s diverse product offerings? I’ve finally figured it out: They want to let everyone make TV shows...
"This isn’t some crazy far-off future world in some Cory Doctorow novel where the rebel forces of goodness and light topple the media empires. This is today. It’s Homestar Runner, it’s Red vs. Blue, it’s weblogs, it’s peer-to-peer. It’s a fundamentally new world where people may money off their creativity not by encrypting it as many times as they can but by giving as much away as possible.
"People keep telling me copyright law is needed because people are naturally stupid and evil, and they won’t pay for things unless you make them, and no one will make anything unless they get paid. Sure looks like they were wrong." I'm reminded of Bruce Sterling's 1994 novel Heavy Weather, where almost everyone is a media author... |
Updated 2/4/04; 8:07:19 AM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 2/4/04; 8:07:19 AM
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