Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally. This is the actual root cause of piracy online. It’s not shady, masked individuals at swanky events commandeering computers to pirate for the hell of it. It’s VEVO employees. It’s everyone.
MG Siegler wants to Catch A Hypocrite. His indictment is a little harsh, particularly given the conclusion above, but point certainly remains, if the labels themselves are pirating, why don’t they just fuck off with their DRM and rights bollocks.
Here’s the full article from Jason Kincaid at Techcrunch.
Source: parislemon
People who create things of value deserve to be rewarded for that creation, no less than people who build cars or make computers or cook McDonald’s burgers. This is a fundamental axiom without which there is no benefit in creation for any purpose save as a hobby. If we do not accept that idea, then what we are doing is we are saying that as a society we do not want the contribution of talented, creative poor people who can not support themselves in some other way; only the independently wealthy with plenty of time on their hands and the means to support their creation need apply. If I intend to invest in a camera, or canvas and paint, or studio recording equipment, I better do it without any expectation that my investment will be rewarded in any tangible way, and so I’d better have enough money to do so without the expectation of return. This idea is, I think, self-evidently horseshit.
Source: tacit.livejournal.com
Cable vs Online vs Content Providers
As much as my gut reaction was to support Time Warner Cable in their fight to redistribute content on the iPad which they already distribute via cable, once again Senor Chang has stepped in with some food for thought:
We’re talking about CABLE who is EXTREMELY WORRIED about losing customers to the online ecosystem. They are NOT fighting for you, they are fighting for the chance to take over online distribution. This is just Phase 1.
TWC customers really have nothing to lose… it all the people who don’t have cable, who pay for their purchases via iTunes, Zune, Amazon and Netflix that will lose out.
If cable can prove that your slates and phones are equal to that of televisions, then cable can make the argument that they should be the sole distributors of this content, depending on what the contracts between them and the networks are.
The legal issues of distribution rights aside, which I believe the content providers have to fight for in order to maintain, this points to the specific issue I’m having with MLB.tv right now. Specifically, I’m not permitted to watch a Blue Jay game on my iPad because I’m in Toronto and the cable operators (Bell, Rogers, etc) have secured all the Canadian broadcast rights.
Of course, the cable operators are not providing Blue Jay games online. So my choice is to either pay for 500 cable stations I don’t want in order to play Jays games on a TV I don’t have, or find a way to circumvent outmoded licensing restrictions and just watch the damn games on my iPad.
Point being, if online blackouts are the end goal of Time Warner Cable, they can piss right off.
The keyboard for a new generation, originally via dethjunkie before being posted on Next Nature, which was shared on Twitter from @riklomas as “Introducing the new Tumblr keyboard” and retweeted by @cap. Yeah!
UPDATE: Actually, it’s originally from another Tumblr, Swiss Cheese and Bullets, but this reference was broken by Next Nature’s poor source linking!
Content day presents:
People Downtown’s Tequila Monthly live mix part 1 at I Need Sugar.
GalleryDK artist membership article.
People Downtown’s Tequila Monthly live mix part 2/Podcast 006.
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