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| Sunday, July 3, 2005 |
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Quote du jour 
| | in a world where commentators are constantly trying to determine the difference between a blogger and a journalist, may i suggest that a journalist is a professional willing to go to jail for their profession. |
What's not happening
| | The LA Beach Blog thing that Halley has been sending folks here to learn more about, isn't happening. |
| | The story begins here and involves this, plus the fact that it isn't quite organized, beyond a few blog posts. |
| | Soooo.... Enjoy the weekend amongst yourselves. |
Why DRM is EBWU, part N
| | Dave Winer's post and podcast on DRM are required reading and listening for everybody in entertainment and publishing with even a micron of openness to the possibility that locking "content" behind DRM schemes and paywalls just might be a bad idea. |
| | In fact, it's worse than bad. It's what Craig Burton calls EBWU, for evil, wrong, bad and ugly. |
| | In his podcast, Dave explains what the software industry learned about DRM (which we called "copy protection") way back in the 80s: it distrusts and screws the honest and good-willed customers on which the industry depends; and it ends up costing more money and opportunity than it makes. It's a huge step backwards. |
| | This is important, because right now the publishing and entertainment industries are becoming enamored of DRM and paywalls. They think it's the future. But if they listen to software developers with long experience, they'll find out it's already in the past. Been there, done that, burned the t-shirt. |
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