On 14/06/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> I didn't say anything
about Coronation Street or things being popular being> uncreative – I'm saying it doesn't take
anything exceptional to produce much> of the media content we have today
Community created drama series shows, which could be shared freely,started
turning up years ago - Ian Forrester promoted them to me. Verycreative,
enjoyable stuff. Any current examples, Ian?
Obscurity is the biggest problem new businesses face. Popularitydelivers
business opportunities. Everything that can be digitised canbe freely shared.
The easier it is to share and reuse a work, the morepopular it will be.
Restricted works will become less popular thanfreely distributable works.
Apparently today's rights-holder production companies believe that DRMcan stop "the mass
market" from sharing works. Probably not; simplymaking the works "All Rights
Reserved" does enough damage to thepotential for the mass market, by criminalizing businesses
that findways to monetise the Internet. (Consider, EMI could have boughtYouTube and been raking in
the Adsense money.)
Professionals tend to overestimate their scarcity value and have asnobby attitude to
works made by semi-professionals. Richard Lockwoodhas just been a good example of this.
The costs of production as wellas distribution are approaching zero, and a lot of
semi-professionalsare making stuff they just couldn't make until now. Since it would
befoolish to start out by restricting potential customers and remainingobscure, newly
founded production companies will permit sharing in alegal way. "Some Rights
Reserved."
The harder the incumbents push on DRM, the easier they make it for newpeople to
trounce them in the market.
-- Regards,Dave
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