YouTube = Free Stuff = Good
First of all, let's get this going the right way....
Now technology is a wonderful thing. Not only can I write my own songs with Apple's Garageband, shoot my own video with a video camera that fits in my palm, and edit my own movie with Apple's IMovie, but now I can guarantee a world wide audience with YouTube. I blog it to you on a free website. And you get all of this entertainment for free!
Whether or not you agree it's entertaining to read these blogs or watch my video is not really my point. If you are reading this, or watching my video on YouTube, that means you have exercised some brain power and made a choice. You are choosing to view free content, and you aren't watching cable or commercial television, or going to a movie you paid $15 bucks to see, or listening to satellite radio. (Protests over the costs of high speed internet are noted, but pa-lease, try out your neighborhood coffee shop's WI-FI, for free, or jog down to the local school or library).
Jumping on the distribution bandwagon, the cities of Austin, TX and Portland, OR have wired their cities for internet access anywhere near the center of town.
Is this form of artistic sharing a good thing? Many conservatives and barking-mad corporate types say this is all part of a leftist communist plot -- bad for freedom and democracy -- bad for America.
Recently, caught up in a wave of goodwill and technology, the Canadian artist formerly known as Jane Siberry (now Issa) gave up all her worldly possessions, including her music, now available to the public for free in the form of MP3's on a website . The artist now known again as Prince and Steven King have also dabbled in this kind of intellectual property right giveaway. Heck there's free legal music everywhere -- even on the bottom of Slurpee cups. ITunes Music store lets you download pilots and music and trailers and all kinds of digital nirvana.. all for free.
Is this the end of corporate dominance as we know it? Yeah, but that's a good thing.
The web makes corporations compete against free content for our collective entertainment dollar. How ironic is that? Those overly synergized content providers - the owners of studios, shows, stations, radio, and news channels - have become an anticompetitive ulcer wrought by capitalism. But now, by giving stuff away and downloading (for free or swapped) makes competition in today's instant information age inevitable, regrettable for THE MAN, but good for us.... I bet Marx never saw THAT coming.
Now technology is a wonderful thing. Not only can I write my own songs with Apple's Garageband, shoot my own video with a video camera that fits in my palm, and edit my own movie with Apple's IMovie, but now I can guarantee a world wide audience with YouTube. I blog it to you on a free website. And you get all of this entertainment for free!
Whether or not you agree it's entertaining to read these blogs or watch my video is not really my point. If you are reading this, or watching my video on YouTube, that means you have exercised some brain power and made a choice. You are choosing to view free content, and you aren't watching cable or commercial television, or going to a movie you paid $15 bucks to see, or listening to satellite radio. (Protests over the costs of high speed internet are noted, but pa-lease, try out your neighborhood coffee shop's WI-FI, for free, or jog down to the local school or library).
Jumping on the distribution bandwagon, the cities of Austin, TX and Portland, OR have wired their cities for internet access anywhere near the center of town.
Is this form of artistic sharing a good thing? Many conservatives and barking-mad corporate types say this is all part of a leftist communist plot -- bad for freedom and democracy -- bad for America.
Recently, caught up in a wave of goodwill and technology, the Canadian artist formerly known as Jane Siberry (now Issa) gave up all her worldly possessions, including her music, now available to the public for free in the form of MP3's on a website . The artist now known again as Prince and Steven King have also dabbled in this kind of intellectual property right giveaway. Heck there's free legal music everywhere -- even on the bottom of Slurpee cups. ITunes Music store lets you download pilots and music and trailers and all kinds of digital nirvana.. all for free.
Is this the end of corporate dominance as we know it? Yeah, but that's a good thing.
The web makes corporations compete against free content for our collective entertainment dollar. How ironic is that? Those overly synergized content providers - the owners of studios, shows, stations, radio, and news channels - have become an anticompetitive ulcer wrought by capitalism. But now, by giving stuff away and downloading (for free or swapped) makes competition in today's instant information age inevitable, regrettable for THE MAN, but good for us.... I bet Marx never saw THAT coming.
posted by Not Why, Why Not? @ 5:59 PM
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