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Attention, fat corporate bastards! I do not believe that this excellent rant against clueless corporate drones’ plans for the internet can be linked to enough. There is lots of juicy goodness there, and the entire thing should be read, but this is certainly worth keeping in mind:
If you actually had even the faintest glimmering of what reality on the net is like, you’d realize that the real unit of currency isn’t dollars, data, or digicash. It’s reputation and respect.
Learn it, live it, love it. As the author says, If you don’t understand right now, don’t worry. You’ll learn it the hard way. We’ll be there to help you learn, you filthy corporate guttersnipes.
And for those who are reading this and scratching their heads, wondering what a Samizdatista might have against big business, here is some worthwhile background reading: Big Business is often the enemy of capitalism.
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free. wonderful that someone pointed that bit out. i was beginning to wonder what would come of the web after it reduced itself to a mere money maker.
the love of money…
free.
We don’t want movies on demand? I think that would be freaking cool.
Books on demand would also rock.
All downloadable and available instantly.
And, if I could get these things, it would not offend me that a number of people got paid for their efforts.
Of course that won’t happen if the people that would supply these things get the idea that the users would pitch a hissy fit at the very idea that something was available on the Internet that wasn’t free…
They already have movies on demand on the internet. Just not within copyright laws and quality is hit and miss.
That aside I do agree with the writer of that fine rant, let’s not turn the net into just a series of commercial nightmares like AOL.
We do want movies on demand. I have movies on demand, and they’re all free for the taking. http://azureus.sourceforge.net , http://suprnova.org, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
I agree with the sentiment but not the details. The only access to government services on-line I want is a daily report of how many state workers have lost their jobs today and are now looking for wealth creating jobs out in the real economy.
A very odd post to find on Samizdata. One thing most of us DO want is movies on demand, home shopping and on-line video games (Bloodrayne 2, Max Payne 3, Quake 4 and Halflife 2 asap please).
Absolute 24-carat, diamond-studded crap. If this chronically misinformed individual had used the word ‘information’ instead of ‘reputation and respect’ he might have had a better chance at salvaging his own ‘reputation and respect’ before it plummetted into a cesspool of ignorance.
Also, what does Perry’s article on Microsoft’s XBox regional restrictions have to do with this?