Shanti’s Dispatches

Random: Disney’s New Pirate Planks Fish Sticks

Mark Cuban: What Am I Missing, Macrovision?

I think the reasoning from the record co’s, etc. standpoint is NOT necessarily to prevent piracy 100%. A 20%, 10%, even 5% reduction in blatant, serial piracy (i.e. not what you’d call fair use) may be just fine for them, and worth it to implement. Obviously the savvy-types will circumvent any method, given enough time (opportunity cost: people are working for McDonald’s Hamburger rates just to pirate a few tunes or dvds).

Mark Cuban: Success and Motivation - You only have to be right once

Always a good read –
Seth Goldstein’s latest: Media Futures, Part 5/5: Arbitrage: IV. New Markets Continued

Deep Throat on how to circumvent FBI-tailing measures

Jane Goodall interview [via Boing Boing]

Back in school, in a philosophy class (don’t ask), we were discussing Artificial Intelligence.

Obviously, the class (teacher included) had watched one too many sci-fi movies. (We’re talking wustl.edu, so you’d expect a little more.)

They were absolutely dumbfounded when I suggested that we have a greater moral imperative to offer Chimps and closely-related primates (DNA-wise) more rights, greater freedoms and living conditions, than we’d ever have to do the same for Artificial Intelligence powered machines.

Yahoo acquires Blo.gs.

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