Doctorow on the Demise of the Digital Hub

natpoor writes "Cory Doctorow writes an excellent piece in this week's TidBITS about how Hollywood is out to destroy the digital hub and what it means for citizens and open source. "In Hollywood's paranoid fantasy, digital television plus Internet equals total and immediate 'Napsterization' of every movie shown on TV." Slashdotters will know some of it, but this is the best write-up I've seen, and it is well-linked. Far more important than AOL on OSX!"

Comments

Re:Impeachment More Important Than Digital Hubs +1

[neocon]

OK, so which is it?

Are you arguing that the violent offshoot of Islam which calls for murder-suicide bombings such as the one Bush was decrying is real Islam? If not, why do you object to Bush saying (as some, but not enough Muslim leaders have said) that this is not the true religion that they claim to be acting in the name of?

This bothers you? Or (as with the author of the article) you are worried that this will bother Europeans?

Given the current rash of synagogue-burnings in Europe, isn't it more likely the opposition to murder-suicide bombers which might bother Europeans? And if this is the case, should we really be letting European-ness envy be the deciding matter in our foreign policy?

Re:FCC?!

[Karl Cocknozzle]

2) who do I bitch-slap at the FCC for this insanity?

Nobody at the FCC...You bitch-slap the unelected President of the United States for installing his big-business cronies into the FCC to make sure that "industry-friendly" (read: anti-Consumer) rules make it through without all that pesky congressional debate.

Michael Powell seems exclusively interested in taking more rights away from citizens...If he had been around during LPFM, we wouldn't HAVE LPFM...