The launch is postponed until at least Monday - the first time bad weather in

from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1])
	by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C5F16F49
	for <jm@localhost>; Thu,  3 Oct 2002 12:24:23 +0100 (IST)
from jalapeno [127.0.0.1]
	by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0)
	for jm@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:24:23 +0100 (IST)
from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
    dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9381MK19987 for
    <jm@jmason.org>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:01:22 +0100
Notes from OSXCon's DRM and Digital Hub panel
From rssfeeds@jmason.org  Thu Oct  3 12:25:18 2002

URL: http://boingboing.net/#85516085
Date: Not supplied
We did a great panel on DRM and the Digital Hub yesterday here at OSXCon with
Tim O'Reilly, Victor Nemachek (from El Gato, makers of the EyeTV digital TV
recorder for the Mac), Dan Gillmor, and JD Lasica, who's working on a book on
fair use and copyfights. Glenn "802.11b Networking News" Fleishman took great
notes through the talk:
Dan: Tim, you're a "content or copyright holder…talk about these issues."
Obscurity can be a tool. Something like 100K books published in the US.
Most books are forgotten after publication. Ravening copying theft is
wrong: most aren't pirated. Publishers puts book that someone sweated over
for years on shelves for three months, doesn't sell, that's it, and the
author has no rights. Publishers keeps rights til out of print, etc.
Oblivion is fate of most books: "Piracy would be the best thing for those
books." People wouldn't pirate them in general, because people generally
like to respect the rights of creators. "Piracy is a marginal act; it takes
away some of the cream."
Publishing won't go away, but it will change the idea of who is a
publisher. Early on in the Web, the idea was that everyone could be a
publisher. The way in which Web sites interact with publishers is often
very much like the way that book publishers try to get placement and
position in bookstores.
Publishing is aggregation. People will re-emerge as publishers. Will
Hollywood be the publishers of the future or will someone else?
Users are voting by their use of programs like Kazaa. Eventually, media
companies will adopt. But if the changes are hardcoded into law, then we're
stuck for a long time with "some mistakes."
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_via Dan Gillmor's eJournal[3]_)
[1] http://blog.glennf.com/gmblog/archives/00000254.htm
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/K3FKZ6jSJe2Px
[3] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/