[opendtv] Re: Microsoft's Masters: Whose Rules Does Your Media Center Play By?
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 07:22:06 -0400
At 4:35 PM -0700 5/23/08, John Willkie wrote:
MS is entitled to make a fool of themselves, and has taken full
advantage of that "right" at least a few times.
All of this does more to illustrate just how far out of touch with
consumers the media conglomerates and Microsoft have gotten.
Vista is a basket case, in part because of "bloatware," and in part
because of the Draconian DRM schemes that Microsoft has implemented
to control the customer - for themselves and for third parties that
MS wants to play nice with.
NBC has seen a huge decline in ratings, in part because the content
sucks and in part because they are treating consumers like criminals.
Apple creates a legal download market for NBC content and NBC tells
Steve where to stick it because he won't let NBC stick it to
consumers with variable pricing.
Maybe both companies should read "The Pirates Dilemma" How Youth
Culture Reinvented Capitalism"
http://thepiratesdilemma.com/
From a review on ARS Technica
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/book-review-2008-05.ars
"Now, some acts of piracy are "quite simply theft," but others are
more complicated than that. American cinema and cable television were
founded as outlaw institutions (there's a reason that Hollywood
flourished as far away from DC and New York as it was possible to
get). Piracy, in Mason's view, is actually an American institution
that the Founders would have been proud of. "During the nineteenth
century Industrial Revolution, the Founding Fathers pursued a policy
of counterfeiting European inventions, ignoring global patents, and
stealing intellectual property wholesale."
"The situation lasted for so long that Dickens was still complaining
about it when he toured the US and found pirated editions of his
books everywhere. Americans were so known for piracy that they were
eventually branded Yankees, from the Dutch "Janke," slang for a
pirate."
Regards
Craig
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