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Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainability | Video on TED.com
At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce.
Quote Details: Robert Heinlein: Progress isn't made by... - The Quotations Page
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
RIAA, MPAA Copyright Warnings: Facts and Fiction | TorrentFreak
This week several scary stories surfaced about how the MPAA and RIAA are negotiating with ISPs on how to deal with copyright infringers. Even though it was often presented as news, those who look deeper will realize that this is nothing new at all, just the same old threats dressed up in a new jacket.
Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show | TorrentFreak
While the entertainment industries push for harsher copyright laws, public opinion steers in the opposite direction. Two recent studies from Canada and Spain found that half of the Internet users use p2p networks to download music, software and films. Less than 5% of the respondents believe that people who download copyrighted content are engaging in criminal behavior.
BitTorrent Freed Music, and Now It’s Yours | TorrentFreak
The Internet and file-sharing networks like BitTorrent have shifted music promotion from the labels to the people. Increasingly, record labels are losing control over what music the masses are listening to, and according to some musicians this is is actually a good thing.
RIAA Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Legal Sham | TorrentFreak
…[through] concerted efforts and cartels, control or attempt to control the channels of creation, distribution, and sale of musical works throughout the United States and the world. They are not artists, songwriters, or musicians. They did not write or record the songs. For a number of years, a group of large, multinational, multi-billion dollar record companies, including these [record labels], have been abusing the federal court judicial system for the purpose of waging a public relations and public threat campaign targeting digital file sharing activities.
Piracy: An Important Message From the Global Entertainment Industry
The Pirate Bay is carrying this spot-on cartoon on what we already knew about labels and studios: Their "new media—first radio, then TV, then tapes, then video—will kill our industry!" argument is simply stupid FUD.
How To Kill The Music Industry | TorrentFreak
During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers. Their logic is clearly flawed, but it could sway the verdict if no alternative explanation is presented. So, if piracy isn’t to blame, then what is *actually* killing the music industry?
Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers | TorrentFreak
When Professor and media researcher Roger Wallis left the stand yesterday, the court asked whether he wanted to be reimbursed for his appearance. “You are welcome to send some flowers to my wife,” he responded. In the hours that followed, many Pirate Bay supporters took this suggestion to hand.
Scholarly paper on the ineffectiveness of using ISPs to police copyright - Boing Boing
Andrew A. Adams (University of Reading) and Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute) have just released a new paper on the risks that we face now that the entertainment industry wants to augment DRM with ISP surveillance and termination of accused infringers. They argue that all the evils that arose from ineffective DRM will be magnified by ineffective ISP termination, that the music and film industries will be no richer, and that the public will be at much greater risk of censorship and unfair disconnection from their education, work, health information, families, free speech, and civic engagement via the Internet.
Hulu's Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight - O'Reilly Radar
DVDs (mentioned in the note at the start) became a big boon for the studios, once their crazy ideas about self-destructing Divx discs went the way of the Dodo. The studios have a very long history of betting against technology people want, and on technology people don't want. This is just another such case. The technology people want always wins in the end -- no duh -- and usually benefits the businesses who fought that technology to the death. Here's hoping the technology people want -- Boxee -- doesn't wind up benefiting the studios fighting it now.
Scene stealer: The aXXo files - Features, Films - The Independent
To Hollywood executives, he's public enemy number one. To film fans around the world, he's a modern-day Robin Hood. As the internet's most prolific pirate makes his 1,000th illegal film download available to the masses, Tim Walker investigates the mysterious figure known only as aXXo
How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA - Ars Technica
Inside one Harvard Law professor's bid to turn his students into cyberactivists and to force the music industry to face the future in the process.
The day the music industry died - Times Online
What looks like commercial suicide is, in today’s reality, sound business sense. Records, CDs or downloads now have all become downgraded to the status of promotional tools – useful to sell concert tickets and fan paraphernalia. While there is still good money to be made in music, and particularly on the concert circuit, the record business – blame it on piracy, too many CD giveaways or the advent of the recordable CD – is a busted flush.
The Boondocks — Gocomics.com: Comics, editorial cartoons, email comics, comic strips
A mathematics question: Let's say a record label gives a new artist a six-figure adavance against royalties, but...
Major labels benefit from non-music sales: report
British record companies saw revenues from non-music sales rise sharply in 2007, partly compensating for declining recorded music sales, a report said on Monday... The growth reflected the expansion in the use of music in advertising, film and video games
The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog
I’m hoping that in the next ten years, the movie, record, and television industries will begin to collapse, to be replaced by an entire spectrum of Web 2.0 media. [Interesting acknowledgement that capitalism involves risk, else its just welfare...]
Time's up for petrol cars, says GM chief - Environment - smh.com.au
"There is no doubt demand for oil is outpacing supply at a rapid pace, and has been for some time now," Mr Wagoner said. "As a business necessity and an obligation to society we need to develop alternative sources of propulsion."
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