fooled be not.. Afghanistan feeds your voracious appetite for your golem press.. bin laden is a helluva handsome target, after all.. 6'5" tall.. big hands.. pure illusion.. "a schoolboy" compared to the mastermind, a psychotic Lebonese named Mughniyeh, financed by Iraq..
quack?.. if i were big and bad with billions to spend, i'd surely launch a skunky spooky manhatten-like project to find that quantum box asap that cracks your cherished pgp secrets in nano-seconds.. not that i'd tell you about it, though..
if, when we all get quantum crypto, expect all hell to really break loose.. seems unlikely these days, though, that freespace quantum crypto will land in the hand of the common man..
until then, i think i'll keep my secrets away from bits..
the problem is that all participants aren't included in the WIPO rulemaking process.. if they were, not only would more affected parties abide by the rules, but the "owners" of globalizing IP would probably extract more value in the end..
example: the Bank of America used to "own" and control the BankAmeriCard credit card.. they restructured the protocol, defining "ownership" as a "right of participation" and Visa was born.. it grows 20-50% yearly past boom an bust.. up to $2 trillion in sales this year or so.. anyway, the BoA gave up "ownership" and control to vastly grow their market..
seems like a temporary solution.. as tld's multiply, so will the cost to "own" names..
Are there any consensus-based systems to resolove naming conflicts? Ideally consensus-defaults could be overridden by personal preference..
Mass-customization wants 6 billion tld's.. one for each person.. maybe lambda will solve the problem:
LAMBDA
We have the bandwidth. We have the capacity with optical fiber to give each user on Earth his or her own lambda, a distinct color of light. That's right, there's enough bandwidth in the spectrum to give everybody, 5 billion people, a little slice of light each. And on the edges, you can connect your slice of light with whatever device you use and suck in the information you want. And in this way it will be exactly like the real world, which is inundated with air and light.
Technology has moved us from the age of planned obsolescence to the era of inherent obsolescence, obsolescence hardly confined to software. Consider Motorola's 1998 launch of the world's first digital, global communications system. The technology supported the Irridium launch was obsolete well before the final rocket thruster fired. Fermi Labs had already fired a neutrino 235 miles into the earth, essentially demonstrating that it was possible to send media messages through the earth.
Calculations showed that the detection of extraterrestrial neutrinos could be achieved with as little as a cubic kilometer of seawater if there is a transmitter within about 3,000 light-years. Any artificial signals should be quite distinctive since the neutrinos would come from a single direction in the sky and have a very well-defined energy.
http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/neutrino com.htm
Bernard Lietaer at transaction.net has plenty of interesting ideas about money, drawn from his involvment in the global monetary system five ways: from a multinational corporation to a developing country viewpoint, from an academic to a hands-on central banking and currency speculation viewpoint.. He concludes that greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using, and that we can use the 'net to create abundant, sustainable alternatives.
The trick seems to be to limit "money"'s capacity as a *store of value* and so expand it's use as a *medium of exchange.*
Silvio Gissel's "demurrage currency" model does this. Demurrage charged currency restricts a user's freedom to hoard short-term gains, and coerces users to invest in more *sustainable* productive actions in the long run. (Demurrage currency devalues with time, so it spreads around faster, increasing in velocity, and hence, ironically, value.
barataria.org used to have good info on the famous Worgl experiment, whose success caused the Austrian Central Bank to stomp it out. "The traders took no risk in accepting Wörgl scrip as it was completely backed by the national currency loan which the mayor had obtained from the savings bank and left on deposit there. This enabled anyone holding scrip to swap it at any time for 98% of its face value in national currency. Very few people appear to have made the exchange because at 2% it cost more to do so than to pay the 1% monthly re-validation fee, but any local money which was returned to the bank or paid to the council in taxation was immediately re-launched into circulation in the town."
IHMO, "money" is an elemental "code" that instructs most of our trades.. I look forward to new definitions and arrangements of it.. Redefined, it can promote cooperation over competition, and suit non-zero-sum increasing returns in network effects (ie free ideas grow more valuable as more people use them)
"Imagine how creative, how productive, how ecologically benign our businesses could be if we ran them according to the design principles of the rainforest. With thin soil, few nutrients, and almost no resources, rainforests could never qualify for a loan. Yet rainforests are more productive than any business in the world, home to millions of species of plants and animals, so perfectly mixed that they sustain one another and evolve into ever more complex forms."
- Taichi Kiuchi
No wonder "it is a tough world out there", and
that Darwin's observation of "survival of the
fittest" was so readily accepted as self-evident
Truth by the Victorian English--and by any other
people who live within a money system of their
own design, such as us today. In fact, there is
not much "out there" that supports such a cynical
interpretation, claims Professor of bio-sociology
Imanishi, from Kyoto University. He has shown that
the Darwinian vision of nature as a struggle for
life simply has been completely blind to the many
more frequent cases of co-evolution, of symbiosis,
of joint development and harmonious coexistence
which prevail in all domains of evolution. Even
our own body today would not be able to survive
long without the symbiotic collaboration of
billions of micro-organism in our digestive tract
for example.
Altruism breeds altruism, and reciprocal acts breed
reciprocal acts. "If we feel that other people are
only out for themselves, one is wary of being
altruistic. If we feel other people are not giving,
we say, 'I'm not going to be a sucker,' " says Cronin.
"The more people understand that we are evolved
altruists, and the more people feel that no one is
taking advantage of another, the more we will become
altruistic, and the more we won't take advantage of
one another."
Why has nature designed something so useless? As
useless as being nice to the other guy? As useless
as sharing information? As useless as committing
your life to pursuing an idea whose outcome you can't
possibly know? Reputation, says Cronin, is a key
element in competition. "Once you understand that
sexual selection is displaying qualities like kindness
or goodness, or is demonstrating that you can afford
to give things away, then you understand the close
connection between flamboyance and altruism. Altruism
can be one of those evolved peacock feathers in our
minds."
prediction: by 2002, aol/twx/viacom/cbs will merge with citi/travelers, consolidating access/content/financial services into an uber bohemoth to "serve you better". In 2003, it'll merge with merke/ciba-giegy, adding medication to mass hypnosis, creating unprecedented pocket picking opportunities.. for few.. for short run.
In the long haul, shareholder managed mediocracies like these will implode. Their urge to command and control the market will win fewer and fewer hearts. More cooperative competitors will route around the sword of the central censor. Wake up and smell the tsunami.
Metcalfe's Law describes exponentially increasing returns as more nodes connect to a network. Hence, AOL MSN etc clobber one another to acquire customers, to aggregate eyeballs, with one simple aim: sell them. Customers defect, exploiting titanic price wars. The price for customer acquisition skyrockets. Investors hoping to cash in on tomorrow's loyal customer might just have their bubble popped.
Long term loyalty can't be bought. And King Customer grows more powerful by the day. This will profoundly change all business relationships in the free trade of free ideas.
Does a customer's capacity to store information quadruple every three years? Gilder's Law says there will be 27 times more pipe to share information every three years. So in ten years, TiVo nodes might store 75 times more info, but have 60,000 times the capacity to exchange it, and do so transnationally. Try to regulate it. Go ahead, hire more lawyers.
Decentralization is bad news for vertically integrated cash registers. It's good news for reintermediators, and creators who avoid selling ownership out to ubercorps. Great news for chaorganizing traders.
Shared ownership in client/server transaction is where it's at. ImagineRadio kinda got it, until they sold out to Viacom. Aolosaurus doesn't get it at all.
Dee Hock, who founded VISA, tells a bit of the story
like this:
"In the strict legal sense, VISA was a non-stock,
for-profit membership corporation. In another sense,
it was an inside-out holding company in that it did
not hold, but was held by its functioning parts. The
financial institutions that create its products were,
at one and the same time, its owners, its members,
its suppliers, its customers, its subjects, and its
superiors.
"It could not be bought, raided, traded, or sold,
since ownership was in the form of perpetual,
nontransferable rights of participation.
"VISA espoused no political, economic, social, or
legal theory, thus transcending language, race, custom,
and culture to successfully bring together people and
institutions of every political, social, and religious
persuasion.
"It went through a number of wars and revolutions, the
belligerents continuing to share common ownership and
never ceasing reciprocal acceptance of products, even
though they were killing one another."
! Dee Hock estimates that if equitable ownership had
been extended to merchants and card-holders, (all users),
Visa would today be *four times* more successful today. !
Something to consider when deciding whether "for profit" or "non profit".. Neither And Both =)
forget: "are you sure you want to delete?" why ain't there a toilet that gives you a satisfying flusssssh sound.. OOPS? then UNDO now, or forever hold your peace 8P
these are great ideas THANX8).. images say plenty, but are used way too little.. adaptive, expressive icons can also translate across various human languages, convey emotion, boucoup meaning..
some speaker at the mp3 summit said a WinAmp study revealed that only about 5% of end users actually care about or bother using skins..
me, i'd feed that nasty mouse to the lions, get me a touch screen, more better voice options, maybe some biofeedback and some kinda way to time stamp out file versionitis (having to rename it all the time or manage backups).. (gotta put ever-doubling disk space to use).. 'course, i'm not a geek.. i'm an idiot =)
Anyone know of one? Here's a solar radio, but haven't been able to find a server.. I'd sure like to solar power my DSL server 8P.. anyone doing this?
The way things are now, every time we log on to Web page we send up a foul little gush of soot somewhere.
I want a solar-powered logo on every Web page I see. I refuse to buy anything off your cheap, sleazy, oil-powered Web site. I want a clean Web. I don't want to be part of the problem every time I log on. I'm sick of living with that. It revolts me.
We will fight for our rights and those of our artists, whose work, whose creations, whose property are being stolen and exploited. We will take our fight to every territory, in every court in every venue, wherever our fundamental rights are being assaulted and attacked.
"our artists"?
ever seen a recording deal contract? the artist becomes an employee of the corporation, assigning the copyrights they create as "works done for hire".. So the corporations look at the artists themselves (not just their ideas) as property..
you mean "the artist" known as Lars? 8).. you're right, paylars is a baaaad example.. but there's somehow we gotta renegotiate to find compromise between the two sides currently screwing artists..
The problem with pay direct to "copyright owners" is the wealth of interminable copyrights owned by minnie mouse and all who hold and share her..
If you're above accepting credit for promoting art you love, then a solution may be harder to find, IMO..
4) Consider researching/finding a radio plugin card that works under your OS of choice. Set it up such that a simple tap of a key starts/stops recording. With a decent radio station (that doesn't voice over the start and finish of songs) this could be an excellent source of free music for distribution via CD or server.
moderate above UP! Listen, it won't be long before $50 buys a credit card sized drive holds 4 *years* of *.mp3 recordings.. Gnapster and freenet plus exploding bandwidth will make a milennia of *.mp3 available for sharing.. deal with it!
anyway, i'm dying to record direct from radio.. does anyone know of a TiVO like device for grabbing broadcast radio signals and converting 'em to *.mp3?
(btw - yes, artists are getting royally screwed between corporations and "pirates".. it is a very bad thing.. stopping this abuse is up to us individuals.. currently i don't rip (no time) but when i start, i'll definately pay lars (it's the ethical thing to do.)
Ian Stoba pointed out in e-mail that the discussions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act centered mostly on the consumers of digital music, not the producers
if a participant "consumes" something, they also "produce" value, ie a preference, which another participant might use to serve a participating "consumer" better. The word "consumer" is misleading, and should be used carefully in any dialogue to find the ideal transaction model imaginable.
Shared ownership of client/server transactions is where it's at..
also, forget the idea of extracting value from recordings.. in ten short years, we'll all have more individual recording capacity than time to live our pesky lives.. the copyright issue will have more to do with copying someones brain and everything that happened in it.. (ok maybe 20 years)
and, of course, it's beautiful that music is the first to breach the damned cartels which seek to control ideas via "containers".. music is soul power, not to be sould canned, but traded live =)
and, in reference to OTHER artists who play "your" music, check out the compulsory mechanical license, which tends a.) NOT to thwart creativity, reinterpretaion, and sharing and b.)NOT to require lawyers haggling which interrupts the free flow of creativity..
sure a dollar buys twice as much microprocessor every 18 months, but bandwidth triples yearly through 2020.. quick math done: Microprocessing gets 64 times more affordable by 2010, but the Macrocosm will be 20,000 times more affordable.. hmmmm..
Poverty is not created by the poor people. Poverty is created by the institutions that we have built around us. We have to go back to the drawing board, to redesign those institutions, so that they do not discriminate the poor, because the present ones do.
The war against poverty, in the long run, may prove to be the most profitable business on the 'net and planet.. it will obviously expand the marketplace for trading and sharing ideas..
re: infrastructure.. um.. in China, even with low annual incomes, cel phone usage ka-booms. Users pay by listening to ads. Sound familiar? Extrapolate this, along with Gilder's, Moore's, and Metcalfe's Laws.. Billions will have full access in a decade, almost for free. Since the 'net is a global medium and evolving jurisdiction, it will transform all goverments faster than we think.
Deal with it. Unlimited recording is gonna be free, and so is bandwidth, so what will the revenue model be for musicians?
It's not ownership of past canned recordings or present distribution thereof. Rather, it's what's alive and kicking right this second, and who thinks what is. So you're right on. It's LIVE performance. (meatspace or elive). Flawed. Surrendipitous. Abuzz. Frisky. Also, live interviews. Interactive stuff, ya know, "community". *Shared ownership in client/server transactions.* Whatever, good music will attract fans, and fans will pay (probably more willingly) when the jackals are disintermediated.
Until then, the big biz "value adders" are in total tsunami denial. They're addicted to the model of owning and selling the past. Evergreen. Selling it to consumers, (who hardly "consume"). The Biz is in a fight for its very life, it knows it, so it'll push harder. More suits. Things will get much uglier.
Ironically, this will only make things worse (for biz powers that.. were.) Data havens will route around. In fact, IMO, data havens could be an ideal way to renegotiate the contract between makers and users of music, (including canned recordings), so long as they permit *accountable* anonimity and secure escrow accounts.. and maybe superdistribution..
Slashdot Mirror
any prediction if and when quantum computers might crack PGP?
fooled be not.. Afghanistan feeds your voracious appetite for your golem press.. bin laden is a helluva handsome target, after all.. 6'5" tall.. big hands.. pure illusion.. "a schoolboy" compared to the mastermind, a psychotic Lebonese named Mughniyeh, financed by Iraq..
quack? .. if i were big and bad with billions to spend, i'd surely launch a skunky spooky manhatten-like project to find that quantum box asap that cracks your cherished pgp secrets in nano-seconds.. not that i'd tell you about it, though..
if, when we all get quantum crypto, expect all hell to really break loose.. seems unlikely these days, though, that freespace quantum crypto will land in the hand of the common man..
until then, i think i'll keep my secrets away from bits..
the problem is that all participants aren't included in the WIPO rulemaking process.. if they were, not only would more affected parties abide by the rules, but the "owners" of globalizing IP would probably extract more value in the end..
example: the Bank of America used to "own" and control the BankAmeriCard credit card.. they restructured the protocol, defining "ownership" as a "right of participation" and Visa was born.. it grows 20-50% yearly past boom an bust.. up to $2 trillion in sales this year or so.. anyway, the BoA gave up "ownership" and control to vastly grow their market..
seems like a temporary solution.. as tld's multiply, so will the cost to "own" names.. Are there any consensus-based systems to resolove naming conflicts? Ideally consensus-defaults could be overridden by personal preference.. Mass-customization wants 6 billion tld's.. one for each person.. maybe lambda will solve the problem:
2 621610,00.html
LAMBDA
We have the bandwidth. We have the capacity with optical fiber to give each user on Earth his or her own lambda, a distinct color of light. That's right, there's enough bandwidth in the spectrum to give everybody, 5 billion people, a little slice of light each. And on the edges, you can connect your slice of light with whatever device you use and suck in the information you want. And in this way it will be exactly like the real world, which is inundated with air and light.
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,
wacker/PERISHABILITY OF TECHNOLOGY
h nology/p_of_t.asp
o com.htm
Technology has moved us from the age of planned obsolescence to the era of inherent obsolescence, obsolescence hardly confined to software. Consider Motorola's 1998 launch of the world's first digital, global communications system. The technology supported the Irridium launch was obsolete well before the final rocket thruster fired. Fermi Labs had already fired a neutrino 235 miles into the earth, essentially demonstrating that it was possible to send media messages through the earth.
http://www.firstmatter.com/newsletter/1999/10_tec
University of Hawaii, Manoa/ET NEUTRINO SPEAK?
Calculations showed that the detection of extraterrestrial neutrinos could be achieved with as little as a cubic kilometer of seawater if there is a transmitter within about 3,000 light-years. Any artificial signals should be quite distinctive since the neutrinos would come from a single direction in the sky and have a very well-defined energy. http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/neutrin
Bernard Lietaer at transaction.net has plenty of interesting ideas about money, drawn from his involvment in the global monetary system five ways: from a multinational corporation to a developing country viewpoint, from an academic to a hands-on central banking and currency speculation viewpoint.. He concludes that greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using, and that we can use the 'net to create abundant, sustainable alternatives.
The trick seems to be to limit "money"'s capacity as a *store of value* and so expand it's use as a *medium of exchange.*
Silvio Gissel's "demurrage currency" model does this. Demurrage charged currency restricts a user's freedom to hoard short-term gains, and coerces users to invest in more *sustainable* productive actions in the long run. (Demurrage currency devalues with time, so it spreads around faster, increasing in velocity, and hence, ironically, value.
barataria.org used to have good info on the famous Worgl experiment, whose success caused the Austrian Central Bank to stomp it out. "The traders took no risk in accepting Wörgl scrip as it was completely backed by the national currency loan which the mayor had obtained from the savings bank and left on deposit there. This enabled anyone holding scrip to swap it at any time for 98% of its face value in national currency. Very few people appear to have made the exchange because at 2% it cost more to do so than to pay the 1% monthly re-validation fee, but any local money which was returned to the bank or paid to the council in taxation was immediately re-launched into circulation in the town."
IHMO, "money" is an elemental "code" that instructs most of our trades.. I look forward to new definitions and arrangements of it.. Redefined, it can promote cooperation over competition, and suit non-zero-sum increasing returns in network effects (ie free ideas grow more valuable as more people use them)
"Imagine how creative, how productive, how ecologically benign our businesses could be if we ran them according to the design principles of the rainforest. With thin soil, few nutrients, and almost no resources, rainforests could never qualify for a loan. Yet rainforests are more productive than any business in the world, home to millions of species of plants and animals, so perfectly mixed that they sustain one another and evolve into ever more complex forms." - Taichi Kiuchi
No wonder "it is a tough world out there", and
that Darwin's observation of "survival of the
fittest" was so readily accepted as self-evident
Truth by the Victorian English--and by any other
people who live within a money system of their
own design, such as us today. In fact, there is
not much "out there" that supports such a cynical
interpretation, claims Professor of bio-sociology
Imanishi, from Kyoto University. He has shown that
the Darwinian vision of nature as a struggle for
life simply has been completely blind to the many
more frequent cases of co-evolution, of symbiosis,
of joint development and harmonious coexistence
which prevail in all domains of evolution. Even
our own body today would not be able to survive
long without the symbiotic collaboration of
billions of micro-organism in our digestive tract
for example.
http://www.transaction.net/money/book/rethink2b.h
Altruism breeds altruism, and reciprocal acts breed
reciprocal acts. "If we feel that other people are
only out for themselves, one is wary of being
altruistic. If we feel other people are not giving,
we say, 'I'm not going to be a sucker,' " says Cronin.
"The more people understand that we are evolved
altruists, and the more people feel that no one is
taking advantage of another, the more we will become
altruistic, and the more we won't take advantage of
one another."
Why has nature designed something so useless? As
useless as being nice to the other guy? As useless
as sharing information? As useless as committing
your life to pursuing an idea whose outcome you can't
possibly know? Reputation, says Cronin, is a key
element in competition. "Once you understand that
sexual selection is displaying qualities like kindness
or goodness, or is demonstrating that you can afford
to give things away, then you understand the close
connection between flamboyance and altruism. Altruism
can be one of those evolved peacock feathers in our
minds."
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/29/paranoia.htm
warning, this is a recycled post:
prediction: by 2002, aol/twx/viacom/cbs will merge with citi/travelers, consolidating access/content/financial services into an uber bohemoth to "serve you better". In 2003, it'll merge with merke/ciba-giegy, adding medication to mass hypnosis, creating unprecedented pocket picking opportunities.. for few.. for short run.
In the long haul, shareholder managed mediocracies like these will implode. Their urge to command and control the market will win fewer and fewer hearts. More cooperative competitors will route around the sword of the central censor. Wake up and smell the tsunami.
Metcalfe's Law describes exponentially increasing returns as more nodes connect to a network. Hence, AOL MSN etc clobber one another to acquire customers, to aggregate eyeballs, with one simple aim: sell them. Customers defect, exploiting titanic price wars. The price for customer acquisition skyrockets. Investors hoping to cash in on tomorrow's loyal customer might just have their bubble popped.
Long term loyalty can't be bought. And King Customer grows more powerful by the day. This will profoundly change all business relationships in the free trade of free ideas.
Does a customer's capacity to store information quadruple every three years? Gilder's Law says there will be 27 times more pipe to share information every three years. So in ten years, TiVo nodes might store 75 times more info, but have 60,000 times the capacity to exchange it, and do so transnationally. Try to regulate it. Go ahead, hire more lawyers.
Decentralization is bad news for vertically integrated cash registers. It's good news for reintermediators, and creators who avoid selling ownership out to ubercorps. Great news for chaorganizing traders.
Shared ownership in client/server transaction is where it's at. ImagineRadio kinda got it, until they sold out to Viacom. Aolosaurus doesn't get it at all.
What if "ownership" is defined as a "nontransferable right to participate" within an idea-trading community?
m l
http://www.chaordic.org/chaordic/what_des.html
http://www.partnershipway.org/unesco.html
http://technocrat.net/947223068/index_html
Huh? Believe it or not, a *shared ownership* model organizes the most successful global enterprise on earth: VISA International.
http://www.chaordic.org/chaordic/res_choasgood.ht
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/05/deehock.html
http://visa.com/av/who/main.html
Dee Hock, who founded VISA, tells a bit of the story like this:
"In the strict legal sense, VISA was a non-stock, for-profit membership corporation. In another sense, it was an inside-out holding company in that it did not hold, but was held by its functioning parts. The financial institutions that create its products were, at one and the same time, its owners, its members, its suppliers, its customers, its subjects, and its superiors.
"It could not be bought, raided, traded, or sold, since ownership was in the form of perpetual, nontransferable rights of participation.
"VISA espoused no political, economic, social, or legal theory, thus transcending language, race, custom, and culture to successfully bring together people and institutions of every political, social, and religious persuasion.
"It went through a number of wars and revolutions, the belligerents continuing to share common ownership and never ceasing reciprocal acceptance of products, even though they were killing one another."
! Dee Hock estimates that if equitable ownership had been extended to merchants and card-holders, (all users), Visa would today be *four times* more successful today. !
Something to consider when deciding whether "for profit" or "non profit".. Neither And Both =)
bandwidth triples yearly through 2020?
Has anyone seen any good writings that explore this type of approach?
sounds like a great idea.. you might like this:
http://www.chaordic.org/chaordic/wha t_des.html
forget: "are you sure you want to delete?" why ain't there a toilet that gives you a satisfying flusssssh sound.. OOPS? then UNDO now, or forever hold your peace 8P
these are great ideas THANX8).. images say plenty, but are used way too little.. adaptive, expressive icons can also translate across various human languages, convey emotion, boucoup meaning..
some speaker at the mp3 summit said a WinAmp study revealed that only about 5% of end users actually care about or bother using skins..
me, i'd feed that nasty mouse to the lions, get me a touch screen, more better voice options, maybe some biofeedback and some kinda way to time stamp out file versionitis (having to rename it all the time or manage backups).. (gotta put ever-doubling disk space to use).. 'course, i'm not a geek.. i'm an idiot =)
Anyone know of one? Here's a solar radio, but haven't been able to find a server.. I'd sure like to solar power my DSL server 8P.. anyone doing this?
The way things are now, every time we log on to Web page we send up a foul little gush of soot somewhere.
I want a solar-powered logo on every Web page I see. I refuse to buy anything off your cheap, sleazy, oil-powered Web site. I want a clean Web. I don't want to be part of the problem every time I log on. I'm sick of living with that. It revolts me.
Bruce Sterling
from the times article: "Soon it will be impossible to trace where money is and who has money, and that will eventually force governments to move away from income taxes and toward consumption taxes."
could you elaborate? Does SeaLand aim to offer a currency and tax transactions?
We will fight for our rights and those of our artists, whose work, whose creations, whose property are being stolen and exploited. We will take our fight to every territory, in every court in every venue, wherever our fundamental rights are being assaulted and attacked.
"our artists"?
ever seen a recording deal contract? the artist becomes an employee of the corporation, assigning the copyrights they create as "works done for hire".. So the corporations look at the artists themselves (not just their ideas) as property..
more than half of your phone bill pays for
- accounting of the call
- advertising so you use phone co. x
these kleptocrats must die=)
oh, and about Paylars. I think it's a joke.
you mean "the artist" known as Lars? 8).. you're right, paylars is a baaaad example.. but there's somehow we gotta renegotiate to find compromise between the two sides currently screwing artists..
The problem with pay direct to "copyright owners" is the wealth of interminable copyrights owned by minnie mouse and all who hold and share her..
If you're above accepting credit for promoting art you love, then a solution may be harder to find, IMO..
4) Consider researching/finding a radio plugin card that works under your OS of choice. Set it up such that a simple tap of a key starts/stops recording. With a decent radio station (that doesn't voice over the start and finish of songs) this could be an excellent source of free music for distribution via CD or server.
,35079,00.html
.. stopping this abuse is up to us individuals.. currently i don't rip (no time) but when i start, i'll definately pay lars (it's the ethical thing to do.)
moderate above UP! Listen, it won't be long before $50 buys a credit card sized drive holds 4 *years* of *.mp3 recordings.. Gnapster and freenet plus exploding bandwidth will make a milennia of *.mp3 available for sharing.. deal with it!
http://www.techweb.com/wire/stor y/TWB19990824S0011
http://wired.com/news/print/0,1294
anyway, i'm dying to record direct from radio.. does anyone know of a TiVO like device for grabbing broadcast radio signals and converting 'em to *.mp3?
(btw - yes, artists are getting royally screwed between corporations and "pirates".. it is a very bad thing
Ian Stoba pointed out in e-mail that the discussions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act centered mostly on the consumers of digital music, not the producers
if a participant "consumes" something, they also "produce" value, ie a preference, which another participant might use to serve a participating "consumer" better. The word "consumer" is misleading, and should be used carefully in any dialogue to find the ideal transaction model imaginable.
Shared ownership of client/server transactions is where it's at..
also, forget the idea of extracting value from recordings.. in ten short years, we'll all have more individual recording capacity than time to live our pesky lives.. the copyright issue will have more to do with copying someones brain and everything that happened in it.. (ok maybe 20 years)
and, of course, it's beautiful that music is the first to breach the damned cartels which seek to control ideas via "containers".. music is soul power, not to be sould canned, but traded live =)
and, in reference to OTHER artists who play "your" music, check out the compulsory mechanical license, which tends a.) NOT to thwart creativity, reinterpretaion, and sharing and b.)NOT to require lawyers haggling which interrupts the free flow of creativity..
isn't that what we're about?
sure a dollar buys twice as much microprocessor every 18 months, but bandwidth triples yearly through 2020.. quick math done: Microprocessing gets 64 times more affordable by 2010, but the Macrocosm will be 20,000 times more affordable.. hmmmm..
fav Yunus quote:
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Poverty is not created by the poor people. Poverty is created by the institutions that we have built around us. We have to go back to the drawing board, to redesign those institutions, so that they do not discriminate the poor, because the present ones do.
http://www.grameen.com/mcredit/weapon.ht ml
The war against poverty, in the long run, may prove to be the most profitable business on the 'net and planet.. it will obviously expand the marketplace for trading and sharing ideas..
re: infrastructure.. um.. in China, even with low annual incomes, cel phone usage ka-booms. Users pay by listening to ads. Sound familiar? Extrapolate this, along with Gilder's, Moore's, and Metcalfe's Laws.. Billions will have full access in a decade, almost for free. Since the 'net is a global medium and evolving jurisdiction, it will transform all goverments faster than we think.
Free software is sharing an increasing wealth of knowledge (power) without discrimation against the poor.. this is a radical shift away from centralized control and domination by force and money-as-we-know-it.. and watch out for freenet:
http://freenet.sourceforge.net
http://wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34768,00.html"
also, re infrastructure, check out:
http://www.media.mit.edu/unwired/more/ and
http://www.greenstar.org
Deal with it. Unlimited recording is gonna be free, and so is bandwidth, so what will the revenue model be for musicians?
It's not ownership of past canned recordings or present distribution thereof. Rather, it's what's alive and kicking right this second, and who thinks what is. So you're right on. It's LIVE performance. (meatspace or elive). Flawed. Surrendipitous. Abuzz. Frisky. Also, live interviews. Interactive stuff, ya know, "community". *Shared ownership in client/server transactions.* Whatever, good music will attract fans, and fans will pay (probably more willingly) when the jackals are disintermediated.
Until then, the big biz "value adders" are in total tsunami denial. They're addicted to the model of owning and selling the past. Evergreen. Selling it to consumers, (who hardly "consume"). The Biz is in a fight for its very life, it knows it, so it'll push harder. More suits. Things will get much uglier.
Ironically, this will only make things worse (for biz powers that.. were.) Data havens will route around. In fact, IMO, data havens could be an ideal way to renegotiate the contract between makers and users of music, (including canned recordings), so long as they permit *accountable* anonimity and secure escrow accounts.. and maybe superdistribution..