tags: IP law

2003

September

2003 Sep 12

blessings in disguise

So-called intellectual property is no hindrance to the Internet. It’s very Taoist in a way. Whatever does not yield to the Internet, the Internet merely routes around. Hence, instead of a myriad of proprietary rich media technologies, we’ve got open standards such as CSS and XHTML.

The RIAA pursues a losing strategy. As they say, those who cannot innovate, litigate. While the iTunes Music Store ain’t exactly a clean break from the old model of music distribution, the fact that you can (for the most part) buy just singles (and not just the crappy singles that the music companies allow to be released) is in itself an innovation.

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2015

November

2015 Nov 5

Matter Replication

It continues to amuse me that people quote "information wants to be free" without giving appropriate context (namely, that "information wants to be expensive", too.)

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