The last stand of the disrupted industries will be on the Hill
By Tom Foremski - December 9, 2005
Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher
It's a snow crash kind of world--it's all about the media wars. Because now, we live totally immersed in a media world. Everything is about content, publishing and delivery.
The content is news, services, games, and it is interactive--it carries its own communications within itself.
The content is published on screens--of four kinds: TV, PC, pocket and paper (static) screens. The device that publishes the content, i.e cell phone, notebook, magazine etc, is less important than the content.
Content is a property that is copyrightable, and content owners have great legal powers to lock it down. The Digital Millennium Act gives content owners substantial control over innovation, what types of devices/software/technology can be developed.
In such a media-centric world, Silicon Valley companies had better get hip to the Hill. Washington D.C is where the disrupted industries will wage their last stand.
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Please also see my post on pugnacious Ed Zander leads Tech CEO policy group.
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Here is a book called Snow Crash:
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Comments (1)
Tom: Ben Hammersley gave a very good talk about the threats to free speech at Les Blogs 2.0 - he talked extensively about the threats of censorship in its many forms. This looks like yet another. Note also that Wikipedia has caved into making restrictions.
There will be cases where restrictions should apply for the common good. Comment monitoring is one such. I use it to ensure there's no profanity, obscenity or other mindless rubbish. To me, that's for the common good and for the benefit of all my readers who prefer a more considered tone. And as site owner, I'm perfectly free to do that, regardless of what anyone else thinks about it. For me, the issue is about reaching your audience at the level it requires in ALL respects.
But when there is equally mindless legislation - of the kind in France where email could technically be illegal as of tomorrow - then you really do have a messed up world.
Big media will try and muscle this as far as it can but can it truly succeed while adsense rules? Especially if Microsoft weighs in with significant monetary incentives for advertising. Imagine that - Google and Microsoft sharing a team of lawyers? Can you really see legislators wanting to step into that space? I can't. Anywhere on the planet.
Posted: December 10, 2005 12:00 AM