On 25-07-13 19:14, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > On 07/25/2013 07:14 AM, Mitar wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Some very good arguments *for* DRM on the web: >> >> http://unitscale.com/mb/bomb-in-the-garden/
On the first pages,the author makes this point: "The web is good at making information free". Which he contradict in the next sentence: "So the web has had to rely largely on an advertising economy". I don't agree that the web is making information free. The advertising industry is extracting rent in the form of monetized eyeballs. Part of the advertising revenue is used to pay for the servers and administrators of the content-platforms. Other part of the revenue is profits of the ad-industry and lost. I don't get 'free' content for that. The problem with the web is that is favours a central distribution model and forgoes geographical caching. For example, if I read an interesting blog and send to URL to a friend in the same room, the data that forms the blog has to travel all the way from the original site - over all the same paths - a second time for my friend. Just so he can have an identical copy. He gets an identical copy of the important bits that mattered: the blog. He might get different bits that don't matter, the advertisements. If we had an easy way for me to transmit the blog to my friend, the important bits would have an almost zero cost of transport while the unimportant bits need the expensive path. Here the waste of advertisement is showing. In technical terms, my computer/tablet/phone could cache the data in a way that my friend could retrieve. Transparent to all parties involved. This was the dream of many caching schemes. There were many reasons it failed. I would like to see a revival of those schemes. The W3C can lock down their version of the centralised net. I pursue the old dream of efficient distribution. It might work miracles on mesh networks, leaving no trails of me giving my friend a copy. Regards, Guido. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
