1. RIAA/MPAA
Iain Thomson: China's chairman Mao had a huge number of faults but his reported quote that “when the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills,” is inspired.
Media organisations like the MPAA and RIAA aren't so much building walls as massive windbreaks, while sending out agents to destroy every windmill they can find in an effort to save their business model. They will fail, because those that stand in the way of technology are doomed.
Let me say right off the bat that theft is wrong. You can't walk into a store and start helping yourself to CDs and DVDs without paying by saying that you have a fast internet connection and so you're entitled to get stuff for free.
Top ten IT villains
Posted on Monday, March 30 2009 @ 3:25 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckVNU Net has written a list of the top 10 villains in the IT industry, you can check it out over here. Here's one of them:
