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- I'm a software engineer who has built web applications for Office Depot, Target, AIG (no I'm not proud of it) and many others. J. Stephens apparently has not worked in the private sector....
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- If I make a website that has a 10GB database and another with a 10,000GB database, the cost of the second is not 1000 times that of the first. The second site would perhaps cost more to host, but...
- Google may not provide monetary consideration to those who create the content that helps enable Google to generate revenue, but so what? The search engine-web publisher transaction is a purely...
- Adam -- Another very well written piece. When I get these by email, however, the author's name doesn't appear at the top, as it does on this page. I assume different authors on published in...
3 years ago
On the other hand, all of his criticisms of Tim are premised on the idea that there ARE levels of "marketness", and that anything that in any way interferes with content providers maximizing their revenue decreases this "marketness". Because contract is useless against 3rd parties, contract isn't enough ... for the sake of "the market"!
But clearly these two views are incompatible. Even a complete revocation of copyright would still result in -some- production of content, and you would clearly have -some- companies competing to bring this content to customers (just as plenty of for-profit publishers make money on public domain works, despite the existence of libraries and Project Gutenberg). If competition between two government-backed cartels is enough of a market for him, why wouldn't that be?
Baffling.
Actually, it's not really baffling. The explanation, of course, is that the use of "market" is pure rhetoric. The bottom line has to be something what content would actually be produced and delivered to people. And Mr. Ross clearly has rather implausible views along the lines of "without DRM, no digital music would ever reach consumers" ... but misusing the term "market" lets him avoid making clear the absurdity of the causal mechanisms he has in mind.
3 years ago
I got that same feeling, especially since throughout all the posts he kept referring to you as "the author," rather than by your name.