Slashdot Mirror
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!"
Looks like the site is overload already. Anyone care to cut and paste?
So far today, LNUX (VA Software) (eg. Slashdot, etc) rose nearly 50%! This is ontop of rising from 0.60 to 0.8 in about a week. Good job and thanks!
Link here - already submitted this as a story, but have to wait 2.3 more minutes before pressing submit
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Shouldn't be an Americans that would represent Hollywood since the US did everything they thought was necessary to kill the Viet-Cong (remember, the Viet-Cong were the one's trying to take over South Vietnam, aka, the non-Comm Vietnamese... there is a difference) by using everything from snipes, napalm, mines, "Agent Orange", the My Lai massacre, killing and bombing of innocent South Vietnamese... who the American soldiers thought were "Charlie"?
Yes... I am Vietnamese, though I was not born in Vietnam nor am I old enough to see the horrible war... but I mother lost almost all of her family due to shots, bombs and mines used by both sides. So I take a bit of resent with that comment.