He’s talking about copyright, the arts and the Net. Theater and vaudeville tried stopping radio, Hollywood tried to stop homevideo. Now, these industries are making big money from these technologies.
Copy protection, licensing costs &c is built in in Nokia phones, DVD discs and similar technologies - “my firm belief is that companies that do this will be failures”.
Apple iTunes doesn’t compensate artists but labels; many artists don’t get nothing from the Apple store.
We’re losing academic freedom. Univ of Wyoming are running a tool that looks at every packet on its network; think of the possibilities for a modern-day McCarthy.
He likes compulsory licensing like Internet Radio licensing that collects money to artists; he doesn’t like the new EU laws - recently implemented in Denmark and Sweden - that makes downloading files unlawful.
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