PC453 -Internet, free info & copyright not finished
Future - all information will be free- bollocks
Wired Magazine writers on BBC Peter Day's In Business programme

- POV 1 Chris Anderson - "It's a new age... accept everything on internet is free give your stuff away and make money off advertising etc." (new book is also about Free, and how to make money out of giving things away.)
- POV 2 Kevin Kelly - the Internet is really a giant copying machine, it’s the things in the world that cannot be copied that have real value (book Better than Free)

- Chris Anderson came across as a smarmy git: " old people don't get it. It's a new age on the internet, young people understand its' free"
..you f?ckhead .. it's not new broadcasting has always been free from Radio, TV and even the days of the town cryer, it did provoke some ideas though

- update Oct 2009 - someone just pointed out tthat far from getting things for free kids these days are accustomed to having to pay to see big sports events on TV like Premiership football whereas traditionally it's been available for free. So you can't say "everything is becoming free", no you can only say due to technology somethings are now free are others are no longer free.

Internet hides good Information as it's aimed at helping "them" not you ! - Another person said
- (I can't remember where maybe another Peter Day prog)
- Cos it's free internet is full of advertising is difficult to find good information. It's not an equal playing field. For every 10,000 pages which are built to benefit their income there is only 1 which is targeted at helping your income. e.g. How to make money

Internet is a omnipresent 24 hour public library
My opinion - so authors can be paid in the same way.
PCs should come with a porn filter as standard
BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00glc5z Online Damage: Porn in the 21st Century

- BBC prog proposed that windows should come with the the default that porn filters are switched on so that it's up to the owner to switch the filter off.

- Microsoft said yes Windows comes with a porn filter, but the default mode is off.
- like most simple solutions only the naïve would believe it's really so simple.
- problems is that any filter is not 100% efficient so the lawyers wouldn't give the go ahead for fear that microsoft wouuld get sued. China would require that PCs come with a dissident filter etc..

- interesting what prog said about 16 year olds making their own porn and posting their pics, which is illegal since they are under 18.

Patents is a legal monopoly
- explained one commentator on ITC In conversation network

- On Internet for free info : more means less

- When we paid for info we got more good info - now someone else pays for the info the amount of good info relative to advertising garbage and distorting information is lower

- People streaming Premier League

not finished 9/12/2008 a a Stew Green Opinion
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