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Grokster and StreamCast are dead. Even the iPod is no longer in production. They are buried and gone, like the Betamax and the Betamax “substantial non-infringing uses” standard — all relics of a bygone era, the ephemera of 2004. Copyright law barely made sense then. As you might suspect, 20 years later, it makes even less sense now.
The year of the music licensing legal wars
We’ve digitized 2.5 million books. Google has as well, but they’re locked up. They locked up the public domain, which we think of as a sin. The library sort of made elite services around it just for themselves.
Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode
Paying violated a central tenet of Google; it did not pay fees to the millions of websites its search engine indexed to show on Google.com or Google News.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
Bill Gates was famously sanguine about the rampant theft of Microsoft’s intellectual property in China. “As long as they’re going to steal” software, he said during a 1998 town hall at the University of Washington, “we want them to steal ours.
Glenn McDonald,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Summarizing Kola 🔑’s idea from a conversation:
Our methods of critiquing software are shallow. We have reviews, reactions, tutorials, puff-pieces, and clout-chasers. It’s important to have independent, thorough, and cultural critique, and it should be distributed among those who are building the future (The Paolo Alto Review).
This isn’t about rev
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