Month: October 2010

  • Downloading is not theft: the record player doesn’t work any more

    Downloading is not theft: the record player doesn’t work any more

    Last week, Sony announced they were going to  stop manufacturing walkmans  — you know, those things with the audio cassettes — while Arnoud Engelfriet and I wrote an opinion piece on online innovation in the music and film industry: are they succeeding at making money off distributing copyrighted material? Downloading is not theft, because copyrights…

  • Paying with your privacy

    Yesterday, Facebook was taking flak again about services like FarmVille and Family Tree leaking personal information to advertising companies. Although in this case, Facebook has stated this is not desirable and is taking steps to deal with it, one has to wonder if we’re not generally too quick to blindly agree to our data being…