Comments on: the punishment does not fit the child: this week’s Chronicle column http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/01/the-punishement-does-not-fit-the-child-this-weeks-chronicle-column.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MichaelK http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/01/the-punishement-does-not-fit-the-child-this-weeks-chronicle-column.html/comment-page-1#comment-4531 MichaelK Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:38:12 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2420#comment-4531 @Blixa I think the bigger point is that we as people can recognize the difference between sharing digital stuff with our friends that we actually know and throwing it up online for mass distribution with anyone and everyone with net access in known human space. The RIAA/MPAA et. al. don't see any difference at all. And that's a problem for them. @Blixa

I think the bigger point is that we as people can recognize the difference between sharing digital stuff with our friends that we actually know and throwing it up online for mass distribution with anyone and everyone with net access in known human space.

The RIAA/MPAA et. al. don’t see any difference at all. And that’s a problem for them.

]]> By: violet http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/01/the-punishement-does-not-fit-the-child-this-weeks-chronicle-column.html/comment-page-1#comment-4525 violet Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:06:39 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2420#comment-4525 I'd say yes if I owned the rights to my in-print published work. but like the musicians whose songs went from albums onto shared mixtapes, my physical printed media is not under my legal ownership; the permission is not mine to give. (at this time, anyway.) it is owned by the publisher, who holds the legal distribution rights. so if you wanted to see a DRM-free ebook of Best Women's Erotica 2009, you'd have to ask Cleis Press, or if you wanted to share a digital version of my Oprah Magazine article about porn, you'd have to ask Oprah. the barrier to entry for physically distributed media is very high and that's why artists have historically had to sign away rights to gain access to distribution (and profit from that distribution) in order to gain access to those channels (held by the few). now the barriers are coming down for digital media and distribution, and we don't have to sign those rights away -- as much anymore. now that DRM is dying, the playing field will become more level for artists/writers who want to distribute, profit from, own and let people share their work. but we'll have to watch Fictionwise, Kindle and Audible crap their pants first. know what I mean? nobody ever asked the artists or radio stations before ripping/making mixtapes. but that's why I started Digitapub.com and don't mind if respectful customers "make a mixtape for a friend." I’d say yes if I owned the rights to my in-print published work. but like the musicians whose songs went from albums onto shared mixtapes, my physical printed media is not under my legal ownership; the permission is not mine to give. (at this time, anyway.) it is owned by the publisher, who holds the legal distribution rights. so if you wanted to see a DRM-free ebook of Best Women’s Erotica 2009, you’d have to ask Cleis Press, or if you wanted to share a digital version of my Oprah Magazine article about porn, you’d have to ask Oprah.

the barrier to entry for physically distributed media is very high and that’s why artists have historically had to sign away rights to gain access to distribution (and profit from that distribution) in order to gain access to those channels (held by the few). now the barriers are coming down for digital media and distribution, and we don’t have to sign those rights away — as much anymore. now that DRM is dying, the playing field will become more level for artists/writers who want to distribute, profit from, own and let people share their work. but we’ll have to watch Fictionwise, Kindle and Audible crap their pants first. know what I mean?

nobody ever asked the artists or radio stations before ripping/making mixtapes. but that’s why I started Digitapub.com and don’t mind if respectful customers “make a mixtape for a friend.”

]]> By: Blixa http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/01/the-punishement-does-not-fit-the-child-this-weeks-chronicle-column.html/comment-page-1#comment-4524 Blixa Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:49:19 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2420#comment-4524 Since file-sharing is the same thing as making a friend a mix-tape, can I distribute digital version of your in-print publications with your approval? Since file-sharing is the same thing as making a friend a mix-tape, can I distribute digital version of your in-print publications with your approval?

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