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As you may have noticed, one of the central themes of this blog is the power of sharing. Mostly, I talk about non-rivalrous goods like soft...

The virtues of free are pretty inarguable, but advocating the open release of stuff inevitably begs the question: but how do you make a livi...

I do love it when copyright maximalist organisations like the MPAA put out statements, because they invariably put their foot in it too. Th...

Recently, I bought the complete works of Brahms . Of course, I was faced with the by-now common problem of whether to buy nostalgic CDs, or...

They're getting there: Copyright holders on Wednesday acknowledged they have done a poor job of countering the “anti-copyright” lobby a...

Yesterday in " the other place " I was berating Gartner for its inability to understand the reality of open source, and now here&...

Readers of this blog will know that I am fascinated by the analogue/digital divide, and how the passage from one to the other causes all sor...

I'm not the biggest fan of private equity companies, but they do have the virtue of being ruthlessly logical: they are not enslaved by h...

One of the recurrent themes on this blog is the transition from a world of analogue content to one that is purely digital - and hence trivia...

Nice story here: I just could not find a spot on the spectrum that would trigger these kids' morality alarm. They listened to each exam...

This is what the film industry *really* makes its money from: new research suggests that the presence of other people may enhance our movie...

There's one of Steven Levy's finer big pieces in Newsweek about Amazon's new Kindle e-book device. It all sounds pretty cool,...

Further hints that the way to make money with digital content is to go analogue : Why do so many people still love vinyl, even though its bu...

Publishers continue to fret over their precious texts appearing online, worrying that there's no business model for them if the content ...

Look, this content stuff is quite easy. It costs money to make a CD because it's a physical object, and if you take a CD from a shop, t...

Radiohead has a new album that you can download - and choose how much you pay. Alternatively, it has a CD version, two vinyl records, an e...