28 Feb
2001
28 Feb
'01
12:01 a.m.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Tim May wrote:
Right. All the "content-for-pay" artists now have to compete against all the unpaid amateurs who are webpublishing because webpublishing is easy and nearly free.
Or because "information wants to be free" (*) and _someone_ will make the songs or images or whatever available for absolutely nothing. Good examples of this are Napster, of course, and the alt.binaries.erotica.* Usenet newsgroups.
"Information *actually* wants to be tied up and spanked." alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."