Comment on Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
jayemar@lemm.ee 1 year agoIsn’t that essentially the same wrinkle that was mentioned in the article with the Napster reference and the movie and music industries banding together?
Comment on Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
jayemar@lemm.ee 1 year agoIsn’t that essentially the same wrinkle that was mentioned in the article with the Napster reference and the movie and music industries banding together?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yeah, and I don’t buy the argument. It only works if the players haven’t figured out they have conmon goals and that they have to pool resources to achieve them. That’s not a hard thing to figure out. The tendency to cartelization demonstrates this. But you cartelization only demonstrates that people can figure out they need to pool resources. They don’t need a cartel to pool money and funnel them into politicians pockets. All they need is industry lobbying associations and think tanks. Wouldn’t you know it, we have both and they’re working splendidly to further the regulatory interests of the corporations funding them.