Category Archives: Business

Monkeys involved.

Streaming vs. Downloading or the Personal Dimension of Book Ownership

December 24, 2009 – 9:01 pm

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:

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White Collar Crime

December 2, 2009 – 9:42 am

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, […]

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Business as Music

February 2, 2009 – 12:17 pm

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