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One of the most important moments in the rise of a radical idea is when the fightback begins, because it signals an acceptance by the est...

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...

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...