TheWayoftheWeb

There’s a great article by Umair Haque on ‘Why the war against file-sharing is unwinnable‘, which was collected in a post on Music Industry Manifesto.
And one quote particularly stood out for me as being an essential element of business:
‘No business has a right to profit, sell, or even to produce. All are privileges that society [...]

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I’ve had several conversations about user generated content with my colleague and fellow blogger David Cushman (and you can read his take here.)
Any online submission or rating system needs to have some reward to make the time invested worthwhile. And most of the current models use recognition as that reward, including Digg and Del.icio.us.
But the [...]

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