Tag Archives: Regulation

On SOPA: More To Do

By C.G. | Published: January 17, 2012

Mike Masnick on how far we, the Internet, have come in fighting SOPA and why there is more to do: This isn’t about one bill. This isn’t about one issue. This is about an entire process. This is about the public — not the big corporations — finally saying “enough is enough” and making Congress [...]

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Scarcity And The Movie Industry

By C.G. | Published: January 15, 2012

Fred Wilson on the movie industry: I am sure there was a time when scarcity was a good business model for the film industry. And I am sure that many of the leaders of the film industry came of age during that time. I understand their muscle memory in terms of the scarcity business model. [...]

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Boo-Freaking-Hoo

By C.G. | Published: January 13, 2012

Mike Masnick in response to the RIAA complaining the deck is stacked against them on CES discussion panels: …who the hell does the RIAA think it’s kidding? “The deck is stacked”? At a trade show? How about back in Washington DC where this bill was written? In that case, the MPAA/RIAA folks were very, very [...]

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GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support

By C.G. | Published: December 23, 2011

From TechDirt: So it seems that GoDaddy changed their mind about SOPA. Other organizations seems to be denying support or removing their names from the list of supporters in the wake of extreme pressure and public scorn – and this is after the bill was tabled until next year. But I don’t know if taking [...]

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“Neutrality” = Rhetoric

By C.G. | Published: May 7, 2010

Karl Bode: All of this simply highlights how the entire network neutrality debate has been so polluted by lobbyist, lawyer and think tank nonsense and hypocrisy (on all sides) — that it has just completely degraded into incoherent rhetoric. Google Might Stop Violating ‘Search Neutrality’ If Anybody Knew What That Actually Meant

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