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Cory Doctorow Calls Death To Music, Movies, Print
An anonymous reader writes "Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow depicts an unfortunate near-future for a handful of media industries being transformed or killed by the Internet. Predicting a large-scale transformation of the music, movie, book, and newspaper industry, Doctorow says, 'The Internet chews up media and spits them out again. Sometimes they get more robust. Sometimes they get more profitable. Sometimes they die.' While the Internet has the potential to help the dying book industry, for example, Doctorow predicts the 'imminent collapse' of the American newspaper industry because advertisers are uninterested in spending money on the remaining offline readership, such as senior citizens, who prove less valuable."
He saves that for DRM proponents.
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Not to mention the alarming scarcity of laptops, blackberries, and other web-capable equipment among the world's refugees and other suffering in various news-worthy events and disasters.
Its like these people were not expecting news to happen near them!
It's utter nonsense. Doctrow is a self important blowhard who, for reasons unknown, people think is actually relevant.
And how are you any different? Everyone has a right to their opinion, and some think that others want to hear it. You obviously thought that someone wanted to hear yours. I guess the difference is that he is a successful author whose words people actually pay to read, and you're just some asshole on the net.
So do you actually have a falsifiable statement you can make, or are you just going to make personal attacks until everyone ignores you? Basically you're saying that you should disregard Cory Doctorow because he is some sort of "flunkie" who doesn't understand publishing, and then you say that *mere* commercial and critical success in that sector shouldn't serve to reverse your previous opinion.
Here, have a big hug. It's okay. The big bad successful full-time professional author will never change what you are, and what you think. Your opinions are invincible to his predations, his foolish fans, or even hard facts.
Go, go, SuperBanana! Posterity awaits you!
Actually, I think two degrees of spin should make your head precess.
Sometimes it makes my stomach turn.