Mobile content producers do not have a truly competitive choice between Google’s 10% fee One Pass service and Apple’s 30% fee subscription service, as much as they have a value system choice between Google’s Internet commons model and Apple’s property-rights-driven market. Google’s One Pass offering...
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Intellectual Property
Regulatory Dissonance: FreePress’ Tim Wu at FTC & Administration: No Burdensome Regulations
If ever there was a prime example of “regulatory dissonance” it would be: An Administration engaging in a high-profile campaign to promote regulatory restraint to avoid and fix “burdensome regulations” (in an Executive Order, in the State of the Union, and in a Presidential Speech...
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Wikileaks and Responsible Open Internet Boundaries
Julian Assange’s reprehensible Wikileaks data breaches of secret, private and proprietary information to the web, endangering lives, diplomacy and peace, has thrust to the forefront of public debate: what are the responsible boundaries of an “Open Internet?” It is an especially timely debate given that...
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Wikileaks and The Open Internet Coalition
Julian Assange’s likely-criminal dissemination of many nations’ secret national security information via Wikileaks — in posting secret, proprietary, and private information that clearly endangers lives, diplomacy and peace — has exposed one of the darkest sides of the broad open Internet movement, which pushes radical...
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Google TV: Dumb Content vs. Content is King
Why are the Big Four networks Fox, NBC, ABC, and CBS, not flocking to Google TV, the largest digital video distribution network in the the world — by far? And why did Forrester’s analyst characterize Google TV’s programmer sign-ups to date as “underwhelming?” The core...
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Google Schmidt: “China can be best understood as a large, well-run business”
In his latest display of no-self-awareness, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, in an interview with the Atlantic, said: “China can be best understood as a large, well run business… and China has roughly the following objectives: It wants to maximize its cash flow; becoming the creditor,...
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Googleopoly VI — How Google Monopolizes Consumer Internet Media (41 page PowerPoint Presentation)
The link is here to: “Googleopoly VI — How Google is Monopolizing Consumer Internet Media and Threatening a Price Deflationary Spiral and Major Job Losses in a Trillion Dollar Sector” — It is a 41 page PowerPoint presentation with 18 pages of pictorial analysis. Below...
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Must Read Thierer Op-ed: America’s Chavez Fan Club
Anyone that cares about freedom generally, and freedom of the press in particular, must read PFF Adam Theirer’s outstanding Big Government expose/op-ed putting the spotlight on neo-marxist “FreePress:” “How America’s Hugo Chavez Fan Club Plans to ‘Reform’ the Media Marketplace.” Adam’s analysis and case are...
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Why Viacom Likely Wins Viacom-Google Copyright Appeal
Viacom is likely to ultimately prevail in its appeal of the lower Court decision in the seminal Viacom vs. Google-YouTube copyright infringement case. If one only reads either the lower court’s decision or the press reports of it, without considering likely appellate arguments and the...
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Americans want online privacy — per new Zogby poll
American consumers clearly want online privacy, per a national poll conducted over the weekend by Zogby International, that was commissioned by Precursor LLC. In a nutshell, over 80% of Americans are concerned about the security and privacy of their personal information on the Internet; about...
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