Category Archives: Innovator/Pirates

Eircom to block internet access to Pirate Bay as other firms refuse – The Irish Times – Thu, Aug 20, 2009

Eircom to block internet access to Pirate Bay as other firms refuse – The Irish Times – Thu, Aug 20, 2009.

August 21, 2009 – 8:22 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Innovator/Pirates | Comments (0)

Edge: ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE By Douglas Rushkoff

These are passages I want to cite from the full work by Rushkoff. the genuinely relevant question: whether the economic model, the game rules set in place half a millennium ago by kings with armies, can continue to hold back the genuine market activity of people enabled by computers. The decentralizing bias of new media …

August 14, 2009 – 5:05 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Innovator/Pirates, New business models, Open Source v. Proprietary | Comments (0)

Pirate Bay leads Swedish Viking charge on paid content – Telegraph

But these acronym rich, highly complex legal conflicts might prove to be irrelevant. Beyond the moral and legal struggle between Internet pirates and traditional content producers, the battle over paid online content – both inside and outside Sweden – has already been lost. Consumers simply aren’t paying for Internet music, movies or newspapers. For better …

August 13, 2009 – 3:21 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Innovator/Pirates, Trends | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

As Studios Cut Budgets, Indie Filmmakers Go Do-It-Yourself – NYTimes.com

Image via Wikipedia Here is the new way: filmmakers doing it themselves — paying for their own distribution, marketing films through social networking sites and Twitter blasts, putting their work up free on the Web to build a reputation, cozying up to concierges at luxury hotels in film festival cities to get them to whisper …

August 13, 2009 – 9:02 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Innovator/Pirates, New business models | Comments (0)

Consumed – Boxers, Not Briefs – NYTimes.com

Unlike some outsider T-shirt designers, Isenberg doesn’t have a problem with paying royalties. In fact, he had previously worked out deals with ex-fighters like Leon Spinks, Ray Mancini and Rubin Carter (inspiration for the Bob Dylan song “Hurricane”) so they could benefit from No Mas designs that pay tribute to them. Still, a big company …

August 10, 2009 – 12:29 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Customization, Examples, Innovator/Pirates | Tagged , | Comments (0)

How early online newspaper production tools led the industry down the wrong path

Image by Sentrawoods. via Flickr I believe that the hoops we had to jump through to get newspaper stories online influenced newspaper managers’ perceptions about the difficulty of online publishing. Sure, many of us had personal websites and knew how it easy it was to slap together a page in HTML (or by using an …

July 24, 2009 – 2:12 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Individuated Media, Innovator/Pirates | Comments (0)