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Doctorow Says Google & Amazon Stifle Progress
An anonymous reader writes "Google and Amazon are 'a danger to everyone involved in the creative industries' because they act as the intermediary between creators and audiences, says Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow. He warns that the corporate giants will 'only fear competition from other established giants ... companies whose character as gatekeepers of video distribution and discovery won't be substantially different.' The solution, he says, is to use copyrights to lower the cost of entering the market. 'For so long as copyright holders think like short-timers, seeking a quick buck instead of a healthy competitive marketplace, they're doomed to work for their gatekeepers,' he says."
So artists should spend 60 hours a week pressing disks and mailing boxes to cut out the middleman?
You're right! It's sad that in this day and age, the only way to transmit music is by pressing it to a disc and packaging it to send to someone! If only there was some easy way for music, text, and video to be sent easily and painlessly from one person to another! I'm envisioning something like a "web" that connects people together. And if it was electronic, that would be even better! Maybe it could even involve computers in some way!
*sigh* but here I am, dreaming of something that will never be.
I'm sorry maybe I'm being stupid but I'm not still not clear how this list hangs together. It just seems like "list of stuff I don't like"
"Hey you kids, get off my search engine!"
Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio
Martin Luther called. He wants his 95 Theses back.
It almost sounds as if you're suggesting that artists concentrate on doing their art and let business people deal with the business.
Preposterous!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."