Now, we need to understand that customers buying your product is a privilege and not a right. Normally, companies do not operate in a near-monopoly situation. If you are such a company and your market is changing, you should consider adopting a new business model.
'Rights management' sounds neutral, benign even. Not something to get fired up about. Start calling it 'digital restrictions mechanism' and perceptions change. There are enough of us that if we all do this when talking to family, friends, the press, etc. we can get the meaning of the term changed.
Read what you're replying to. He's talking about the arguments, not the corporations. Yes there are corrupt and greedy corporations everywhere, the point is that the argument "profit is all that matters for corporations" is most often heard from Americans. And frankly yes, that argument is srewed up.
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"... and encourages us to stop looking for answers." That, sadly, is why it's not astounding.
He won the debate. Seems like someone was listening.
Now, we need to understand that customers buying your product is a privilege and not a right. Normally, companies do not operate in a near-monopoly situation. If you are such a company and your market is changing, you should consider adopting a new business model.
Pronounced as in "goto crutch already".
How Freudian.
Not a particularly recent phenomenon, see Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter, 1963 or Closing of the American Mind, Alan Bloom, 1988. Intellectuals are distrusted (though not intelligent people per se); uninformed opinions carry the same weight as informed ones; most of the media vy for the lead in a relentless race to the lowest common denominator of audience intelligence, etc., etc, ad nauseam.
And why not? A dumb populace is much easier to control and to sell to.
'Rights management' sounds neutral, benign even. Not something to get fired up about. Start calling it 'digital restrictions mechanism' and perceptions change. There are enough of us that if we all do this when talking to family, friends, the press, etc. we can get the meaning of the term changed.
We need to start systematically speaking about digital *restrictions* management.
Except, almost 6 years ago, Richard Stallman: The X Window's Trap
Read what you're replying to. He's talking about the arguments, not the corporations. Yes there are corrupt and greedy corporations everywhere, the point is that the argument "profit is all that matters for corporations" is most often heard from Americans. And frankly yes, that argument is srewed up.