Critical digital strategist @ The Incredible Adventure starts here...
Digital Bohemien.
First corporate blog in The Netherlands (frank-ly.nl)
Founder of Lifehacking.nl.
Digging Digital Stuff.
Copyright has one stated purpose: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. I recognize that it may be upsetting for others to do stuff with your works, especially if you don't like what they do, but there's no law against it (for the most part).
They pressured Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy to stop selling bulk quantities of DVDs to Redbox operatives in a renewed attempt to cut off the kiosk operator’s supply. Since Redbox’s operatives didn’t advertise their affiliation, however, the big-box retailers could not limit their bulk purchases without limiting everyone’s bulk purchases. Which is what they did, imposing chain-wide limits of five DVDs per person, per purchase, thus inconveniencing not only Redbox but anyone who might, for whatever reason, want to purchase more than five copies of a movie–a holiday shopper, for instance, or someone organizing a raffle for the local high-school theater club.
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This is why I'm not selling digital downloads of the professional readings of With a Little Help. With so much friction and goofiness in the marketplace, I'd rather give the MP3s away under a Creative Commons license and solicit donations through PayPal. My listeners don't want DRM. They want to get their books with a minimum of hassle.
Cory Doctorow is weer eens spot-on met zijn inzichten in DRM, copyright en het ondoordachte beleid van uitgevers
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