Desktop
This is my desktop. I spent hours pottering around the Internet googling ‘winged girls’ and found only the siliconed, botoxed fantasy girls spewed out by masturbating men (and those spewed out by women that accept the macho masturbatory standard).
“Fuck that for a loop,” I spat. A Cory Doctorow bookcover provided the girl.
Copyright
Discussion on 702:
• Make consumers unsure of whether they are getting what they pay for. Distribute DVD movies to the sellers of pirated movies that half way through a screen comes up and says that its a pirated version and that the small amount of money consumers have paid for the DVD has been donated to a fund to return money to the artists. And don’t give the consumers the end of the movie.
• Usury punished. Consumers can buy local artists through the internet for cheaper than in a local shop. Consumers feel cheated and justify their copyright infringements.
Monopolies
What if it were more expensive to produce and more expensive to distribute. If the economic rationale for creating a monopoly is that without it we would never get investment, then we should only create monopolies for investments that are taking place.
Cory Doctorow, in response to a statement by an interviewer that: It is less expensive to produce and less expensive to distribute if you centralise operations in video distribution.
