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| Monday, January 9, 2006 |
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Welcome to the Long Run 
| | I'm not going to pick a fight with the Cory Doctorows of the world because they're far more informed and cleverer than me, but let's face it: we're going to have to have some DRM. At some level, there has to be an appropriate level of control over content to make it economically feasible for people to produce it at anything like an industrial level. And on the other side of things, it¹s clear that the people who make the consumer technology that ordinary people actually use - the Microsofts and Apples of the world - have already accepted and embraced this. The argument has already moved on. |
| | what are the best implementations of DRM out there, which balance the needs of the provider and the consumer without getting in the way of either? Does such a thing exist? And who is advocating it with as much conviction, homework and intelligence as the copyfighters? |
| | What's extra bumming here is that Lloyd credits the "copyfighters" with "conviction, homework and intelligence" (as well as being "more informed and cleverer") — and dismisses them as losers in an "argument" that hardly happened. |
| | And jeez, why the hell does Apple, Microsoft and other Bigs using DRM mean that it's good or that it's "won" a damn thing? Hey, they sucked up to Hollywood for distribution of mass-media Hollywood-type crap. And they're going to screw it up, too. You'll go to Google for your CBS, Apple for your NBC and Microsoft for your ABC. The old sources will be distributed through a mess of incompatible systems, each isolated by their own DRM, and will flush their costly, inefficient and ossified old industy into the hell we've had on the Net with instant messaging for the duration. |
| | Go ahead, guys. Make my decade. |
| | I'm with David Smith, who writes, Hang on a moment! Who's had this argument? Did I blink and miss the great national and international debates? |
| | David points to more required reading from Tom Coates and Julian Bond, both of whom also see a world of Darkness settling upon the Net. |
| | the fight in the long run will be between the pyramids and the former slaves that have grown tired of helping build them. |
| | As Neo said to the Architect, it's about choice. If you don't like what they give you, make some of your own. |
| | We need to do with video what we've started doing with music: building a new and independent industry. |
| | Yes, the next generation of PCs and Macs will have DRM cripplecrap in them. Hey, who needs WIPO, Congress and the U.N. to mandate copyright craziness, when Intel is glad to put the means right in the hardware? |
| | But current PCs already have DRM, truth be told. (Try getting a screen shot of a DVD frame on your Mac.) Yet you can still make music and movies that can be heard, watched, produced and distributed outside The System. That won't change. |
| | And that's what matters most. |
| | Because in the long run, the indies will win. |
| | That's how we got the Net, folks. And that's how we'll keep it, too. Even if our dawn's early light is years away, it will come. Meanwhile, we have to endure this winter of dissed content. |
Campup
| | It shouldn't be long before we have this site fleshed out with a ton of information regarding Mashup Camp. Mashup Camp will most likely be a 2 day event (with a longshot possibility of being pushed to 3 days). The target timeframe for the event is sometime between Feb 18 and Feb 25 (2006). The target location is Northern California... probably some place south of of the city (San Francisco) where parking is friendly. Exact details are getting worked out right now. |
| | Here's the "positioning", (as marketers like to put it): |
| | My goal for Mashup Camp is to do the opposite of what all these other Web 2.0-esque conferences are doing. It won't be invitation only. The pilot event will be modest in size guaranteeing intimacy and low or perhaps even no cost to attend (perfect for some of the people doing the real innovation on a low budget). And, it will involve a mix of open networking time, leader-facilitated discussions that address some of the most important issues and concerns that the API providers and the mashup artists actually need to work out, and fun (for example, a hottest mashup contest with an even hotter prize). |
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