Via TorrentFreak lees ik een artikel op NU.nl waarin een aantal politici (Martijn van Dam & Nicolien van Vroonhoven) voorstellen om een heffing op internetabonnementen te overwegen ter compensatie van de verliezen die muziekbedrijven hebben als gevolg van illegale uitwisseling van MP3's. En in ruil daarvoor zou er dan een verbod op het gebruik van DRM komen.
Martijn (PVDA) ontkent vervolgens op zijn eigen weblog dit gezegd te hebben, maar maakt vervolgens alsnog allerlei ondoordachte opmerkingen die kennelijk de basis vormen voor zijn politieke strategie. Bij deze eentje uit de reacties, maar het hele stuk staat er vol mee....
"Laten we wel wezen, er is geen consument die een ADSL-aansluiting heeft van 20Mbps om lekker snel te kunnen mailen... Iedereen weet dat die hoge snelheden er zijn om te downloaden of uit te wisselen."
Martijn, als je de entertainment industrie echt wilt helpen moet je de (internationale) regelgeving afschaffen die zegt dat 'thuiskopiëren' gecompenseerd moet worden. Misschien dat die bedrijven er dan wat sneller achter komen dat DRM gewoon een hopeloze strategie is aangezien er prima op andere manieren geld verdiend kan worden aan muziek. En dat thuiskopiëren dan een voordeel gaat worden, geen (gepercipieerd) nadeel.
woensdag 31 januari 2007
zaterdag 27 januari 2007
De Pers gaat er wel komen;-)
Onderstaand stukje (overgenomen van Molblog) behoeft geen verdere toelichting....
"Knappe uitspraak van Cornelis van den Berg (31 jaar), de bedenker van De Pers in de Gelderlander:
"Ik heb geen verstand van Internet. Maar ik ken niemand die regelmatig meer dan 2 of 3 websites bezoekt. Ik geloof niet in die verhalen dat mensen zelf hun artikelen en hun foto's maken en dat anderen dat willen bekijken."
Heb bijna te doen met Anton van Elburg die de webredactie gaat opzetten."
"Knappe uitspraak van Cornelis van den Berg (31 jaar), de bedenker van De Pers in de Gelderlander:
"Ik heb geen verstand van Internet. Maar ik ken niemand die regelmatig meer dan 2 of 3 websites bezoekt. Ik geloof niet in die verhalen dat mensen zelf hun artikelen en hun foto's maken en dat anderen dat willen bekijken."
Heb bijna te doen met Anton van Elburg die de webredactie gaat opzetten."
vrijdag 26 januari 2007
Geen spam meer?
Simon Willison heeft een interessante oplossing bedacht voor het bestrijden van comment spam op weblogs. Hij gebruikt daarvoor (het snel opkomende) OpenID, aangezien iedereen middels OpenID een unieke 'identifier' kan hebben. En in plaats van blacklists gebruikt hij gedistribueerde whitelists. Deze oplossing zou inderdaad goed kunnen werken voor weblogs, maar uiteindelijk zouden we hiermee ook wel eens de basis kunnen leggen voor spamvrij emailverkeer of vergelijkbare 1 op 1 communicatievormen....
"This weblog has a comment spam detection system based on simple heuristics. Comments are assigned a score; if the score exceeds a certain level the comment is placed in a queue for moderation. As of today, one of the heuristics is “does the comment author have an OpenID that is on the whitelistâ€. I’ve populated my whitelist with the OpenIDs of people who have posted two or more useful comments and do not appear to be using an anonymous provider. I’ll be adding to it regularly in the future. Here comes the social part: I’m sharing my whitelist. If you run your own OpenID-enabled weblog you are welcome to include my whitelist in your comment spam heuristics. If you publish your own whitelist, I will happily do the same. Social whitelisting benefits from being de-centralised, just like OpenID. If I find that you have whitelisted a spammer, I can unsubscribe from your whitelist. There’s no central authority or point of failure."
donderdag 25 januari 2007
In-game advertising werkt
Gegeven de recente berichten over het falen van (in-)game advertising zou je bijna denken dat het echt niet werkt;-) Gelukkig werd het onderzoek vooral verkeerd (en te breed) geinterpreteerd en worden de successen over het hoofd gezien. Successen die wij dagelijks ervaren.
"Big Fish started offering free games online a year and a half ago. Four years ago, after the dot-com bust, it was not possible to make much money from ad-supported games, Mr. Thelen said. Now that is changing. While Big Fish still makes most of its money from user-paid downloads, its fastest-growing revenue area is its advertising. Whereas advertising in games used to be specialized, involving a lot of negotiation , the growing number of ad options for casual games is making game advertising more accessible to brands that once focused on traditional advertising, ad executives said."
"Big Fish started offering free games online a year and a half ago. Four years ago, after the dot-com bust, it was not possible to make much money from ad-supported games, Mr. Thelen said. Now that is changing. While Big Fish still makes most of its money from user-paid downloads, its fastest-growing revenue area is its advertising. Whereas advertising in games used to be specialized, involving a lot of negotiation , the growing number of ad options for casual games is making game advertising more accessible to brands that once focused on traditional advertising, ad executives said."
dinsdag 23 januari 2007
Making more with prostitution
We've read enough about Chinese and Korean companies where underpaid employees are working hard to earn money in virtual words by collecting valuable objects (farming). Prosititution however appears to be more lucrative for some…;-)
“Perhaps the most unique use of a “female character” was by Rob Conzelman of Philadelphia who wrote of his own experiences as a “cyber whore” for Dragonfire magazine. He explained that he tried his hand at “gold farming” but was frustrated by the amount of game time needed to acquire even a small amount of game cash. Plundering and pillaging dungeons and cities was not enough to get him the money he needed so instead he resorted to the world’s oldest profession — prostitution. He went to the largest cities in the World of Warcraft where he stripped off all of his female character’s clothing and positioned her in front of the cities’ inns and propositioned players to have a good time upstairs. It is surprising how many players actually took him, excuse me, her, up on her proposition, and she soon made much more money than she could have done tramping through dungeons.”
Prostitutie verdient beter
We hebben inmiddels genoeg gelezen en gehoord over de Chinese en Koreaanse bedrijven waar hard gewerkt wordt om geld te verdienen in virtuele werelden door het verzamelen van waardevolle objecten (farming). Prostitutie blijkt voor sommigen echter lucratiever...;-)
"Perhaps the most unique use of a “female character†was by Rob Conzelman of Philadelphia who wrote of his own experiences as a “cyber whore†for Dragonfire magazine. He explained that he tried his hand at “gold farming†but was frustrated by the amount of game time needed to acquire even a small amount of game cash. Plundering and pillaging dungeons and cities was not enough to get him the money he needed so instead he resorted to the world’s oldest profession — prostitution. He went to the largest cities in the World of Warcraft where he stripped off all of his female character’s clothing and positioned her in front of the cities’ inns and propositioned players to have a good time upstairs. It is surprising how many players actually took him, excuse me, her, up on her proposition, and she soon made much more money than she could have done tramping through dungeons."
"Perhaps the most unique use of a “female character†was by Rob Conzelman of Philadelphia who wrote of his own experiences as a “cyber whore†for Dragonfire magazine. He explained that he tried his hand at “gold farming†but was frustrated by the amount of game time needed to acquire even a small amount of game cash. Plundering and pillaging dungeons and cities was not enough to get him the money he needed so instead he resorted to the world’s oldest profession — prostitution. He went to the largest cities in the World of Warcraft where he stripped off all of his female character’s clothing and positioned her in front of the cities’ inns and propositioned players to have a good time upstairs. It is surprising how many players actually took him, excuse me, her, up on her proposition, and she soon made much more money than she could have done tramping through dungeons."
Operating systems don't matter
Lately I've read a lot about Parallels, a software product that allows you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on one machine, an Apple for example. But every time I read about it I tend to think that I don't care a lot about the OS I'm running, OS X, Linux, Vista, whatever... Almost everything I do is within the browser environment. Office is probably the only program I frequently use outside of the browser, but even that is not really necessary anymore. I am always online however, sort of a must if you'd like to live a web-based life. Although there's definitely a trend towards being able to use web services off line as well…
“While the last version of Parallels allowed you to run both operating systems at once, it still required you to switch back and forth between the two. Now, however, Parallels’ Coherence product, which the company says will ship by mid-February, lets you keep multiple windows open on your desktop, just as you normally would, running a variety of applications. Except now you can switch between windows running Windows and Mac applications just as if they were all Mac.”
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