Cory Doctorow, a writer, a Boing-Boing contributor and one of the most interesting thinkers on copyright, copyleft and social aspects of intellectual property, explains why music streaming services will never become an effective substitute for downloading, ending up as a complementary service instead:
Climategate or, as Wikipedia calls it, the “Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident”, has been all over the Internet for some time now and I do not feel like adding anything substantial to the discussion. However, the editorial in this week’s Nature has provoked quite a strong reaction on my side. The editors write:
The e-mail archives […]
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen
This line from Woody Guthrie’s “Pretty Boy Floyd” has been used to illustrate the problem of white collar crime in a fascinating three-part mini-cycle of the “Thinking Allowed” podcast produced by BBC Radio. Laurie Taylor does a magnificent job of uncovering and discussing the technical, […]