Comment 73158

By Borrelli (registered) | Posted January 18, 2012 at 13:36:10

The business models of many of these companies is based on sharing content that is not theirs to share.

Well, this gets to the irresolvable conflict I seem to see: media corps want to use social media, search engines, and "these companies" to promote and otherwise advertise their products, but want to handicap this powerful technology so that it can never provide any further degree of ownership over the material.

They want to replicate the ancient radio model: one-way broadcast, with no ability for the listener to record, manipulate, or otherwise 'own' the content.

It's ridiculous to expect people to turn their backs on nearly 100 years of technological development just so corporate entities can maintain unbroken control over other people's (i.e. artists') content.

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