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Dave Crossland wrote: > On 19/11/2007, Nick Reynolds-A&Mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Also you can > comment here:> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/groklaw_interview.html > Good point :-) > Ashley said, "Well, they started from the principle of, "We just don'tknow > the way this market is going to develop. We don't want any of ourcontent to > be made available." A lot of the rights holders are not atall familiar with > this world. They are often writers, or directors, orproducers—and for them, > **they can see that this world hasopportunity, but they also see that it has > great risk of underminingtheir current business.** And so this is something > that we've had totake them on a journey with. And the initial point was, > yes,convincing them that **the content was well-protected, that once > theyunderstood enough about copyright and digital rights management towant to > be assured that the content would be available free within theUK but not > freely copying available outside the UK.** And we hadauditors in to > demonstrate that that was the case." > This reminded me of something Eben Moglen said > athttp://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2420/stories/20071019507610000.htm : > "What's happening is that, at one and the same time, the digitalrevolution is > offering capitalists the undreamt of **possibility thatthey can continue to > charge large prices for goods that have no costof manufacture and > distribution.** That is the bonanza. That isperfection for capitalism. Profit > becomes the whole of the price. It'sa very great dream for them. > "At the same time, they are facing the **possibility of complete ruinif we > move to a voluntary distribution system in which they no longerown anything** > but perform services to creators. Because then, indistributing culture, they > must compete with children and lovers andpeople who distribute culture just > because they want to. So there is acompetitive crisis building. > "On the one hand, their pay-off matrix shows in the positive side somevery > large numbers. And on the negative side, their pay-off matrixshows equally > large negative numbers. **There is no saddle point inthis game,** the game > theoreticians would say. The game itself doesnot give you an optimum strategy. > "There are two possibilities: they have superior force, and so theycoerce the > game to the cells in which they win. Or we have superiorforce in which case > they must change their way of doing business.Unfortunately, there is really > no choice in the middle. The middlebecomes hard to hold because the ends are > so attractive. > "So, international capital at one and the same time sees that it > hasopportunities beyond its wildest dreams and it has challenges thatmight > put it out of business. This produces that same uneasiness thatbeset capital > when it first encountered the communist movement in themiddle of the 19th > century. And so I took the moment at which itencountered communism and I > changed a few words to show how it worksat the opening of the 20th century. > And the spectre of freeinformation that haunts capitalism now is like the > spectre ofcommunism that haunted it in the 19th century with just one > exception;this one works. The communists of 1867 were writing about > somethingthat they hoped to do. We are writing about the spreading out > ofsomething we have already done. This one is already showing that itcan > happen." > Interesting times :-) > -- Regards,Dave > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
