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Doctorow on the Demise of the Digital Hub

Posted by michael on from the programming-restored-to-original-meaning dept.

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!"

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  1. Mmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just had some of the best muthafuckin cornbread I've eaten in months.

  2. Already! by xbrownx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looks like the site is overload already. Anyone care to cut and paste?

    1. Re:Already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=geoff-185800.1 7370712082002%40news.qwest.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gpl ain

  3. Offtopic, but WOW! by pheph · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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!

    1. Re:Offtopic, but WOW! by passthecrackpipe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's because IBM and Sourceforge are announing a deal for SF.net to run using closed IBM software

      --
      People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
    2. Re:Offtopic, but WOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Out of curiosity:

      LNUX is at 1.24 at the time of writing. It's earnings-per-share is at -7.22. Is this "being sold a bill of goods" gone literal?

  4. $1.24 SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no delisting this time. goddammit.

  5. Re:Yeah I can see that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hmm, lame 1st post. Try a bit harder to BS meaning

    preson?

  6. Re:Summation of this and previous Slashdot article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "The End is Nigh"
    "What, right nigh?"

    copyright Two Ronnies

  7. LIAR!!!! by superpulpsicle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AOL on OSX is more important!!!

  8. Link by passthecrackpipe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Link here - already submitted this as a story, but have to wait 2.3 more minutes before pressing submit

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    People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
  9. Impeachment More Important Than Digital Hubs +1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To read more about the babbling idiot in The White House
    please, see:

    W's Crusade Against Common Sense

    Thank you and have a marijuana inspired weekend.

  10. VA moves Source Forge to proprietary platform. by FreeLinux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Submission rejected, so read it for yourself.

    http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-949505.html

  11. Re:Is it relevant? by questionlp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.