Links for 13-01-2008
Piracy and innovation; watermarking to replace DRM; space-war simulations …
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1 – Is Piracy The Leading Indicator Of Innovation?
“I am a big believer that removing artificial scarcity almost always leads to larger markets.” Interesting stuff.
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2 – DRM Is Dead, But Watermarks Rise From Its Ashes
“… consumer advocates are singing a note of caution, as the music industry experiments with digital-watermarking technology as a DRM substitute.” A drowning man will grab anything that looks floaty.
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3 – How China Loses the Coming Space War (Pt. 1)
“High above Asia, as the bars and clubs of Beijing begin to fill up at the end of another work day, a US early warning satellite spots the tell-tale plume of a missile streaking out of the wastes of Western China.”
