iMakeContentNews, analysis and stuff from a screen in London(Untitled)- December 2, 2002 Copy this: It's the beginning of the end of the big media monopoly, argues Robert X Cringely. The big media corporations may have succeeded in making copying illegal. But even Microsoft is starting to acknowledge that there's been a total failure in stopping the growth of a culture of copying. Big media's next step will be to employ hacking techniques against peer-to-peer file sharing systems. Then, as consumer PR hits rock bottom, the corporates will introduce their own pretty peer-to-peer...http://www.scribble.clara.net/2002/12/02.html#a816 |