Tag: Arnoud Engelfriet

  • 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…