I love the comparison of Mollison's book to Microsoft Windows...
That's certainly enough to scare me away from wanting to read it
(being a Mac fanboy). :)
this from a recent BOINGBOING post (which simply verifies a number of
other studies of the same ilk)..
A new British independent poll conducted by Ipsos Mori concluded that
the people who do the most illegal downloading also buy the most
music. This is in line with many other studies elsewhere and is easy
to understand: people who are music superfans do more ofeverything to
do with music: they see more live shows, listen to more radio, buy
more CDs, buy more botlegs of live shows, buy more t-shirts, talk
about music more, do more downloading -- all of it.
And of course, these are the people the music industry's supergeniuses
have set their sights upon for bizarre enforcement regimes like the
one that British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has promised:
anyone who lives in a house that generates three or more copyright
infringement notices will be barred from Internet access.
"The latest approach from the Government will not help prop up an
ailing music industry. Politicians and music companies need to
recognise that the nature of music consumption has changed, and
consumers are demanding lower prices and easier access," said Peter
Bradwell, from the think-tank Demos, which commissioned the new poll
conducted by Ipsos Mori.
However, music industry figures insist the figures offer a skewed
picture. The poll suggested the Government's plan to disconnect
illegal downloaders if they ignore official warning letters could
deter people from internet piracy, with 61 per cent of illegal
downloaders surveyed admitting they would be put off downloading music
illegally by the threat of having their internet service cut off for a
month.
"The people who file-share are the ones who are interested in music,"
said Mark Mulligan of Forrester Research. "They use file-sharing as a
discovery mechanism. We have a generation of young people who don't
have any concept of music as a paid-for commodity," he continued. "You
need to have it at a price point you won't notice."
On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Scott Pittman wrote:
Mozilla would have never happened if it had started by publishing
Microsoft's platform on line but they accomplished what they
intended by
creating a better platform and people contributed and supported it.