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INDEX
  1. Propertyh
  2. Internet Skeptics
  3. gfree internethis too costly
  4. Napster
  5. common-carrier lines
  6. <1>
  7. Picture(1)
  8. Picture(2)
  9. Picture(3)
  10. Picture(4)
  11. grearranging deck chairs on the Titanich
  12. Picture(5)
  13. Picture(6)
  14. hopeless
  15. too soon.
  16. <2>
  17. OSCON
  18. Google(1)
  19. Google(2)
  20. Google(3)
  21. Google(4)
  22. Google(5)
  23. Google(6)
  24. Google(7)
  25. <3>
  26. Picture(7)
  27. Picture(8)
  28. Picture(9)
  29. <Copyright Wars>
  30. New applications of old technologies
  31. New threats to copyright
  32. Napster
  33. Picture(9)
  34. Picture(10)
  35. Picture(11)
  36. Valenti: with the click of a button with the speed of light to 6 billion people around the world
  37. ginstantaneouslyh
  38. gYou canft compete with freeh
  39. ga terrorist warh
  40. Responses:
  41. DMCA
  42. Broadcast flag
  43. digital vigilantes
  44. Mandated gfritzh chips
  45. Barrett: gpolice state in every computerh
  46. for what?
  47. gto stop the harmh
  48. two perspectives: short term & long term
  49. short term
  50. content owners claim:
  51. gfreeh displaces gsalesh
  52. e.g., 100 CDs for free = 100 fewer CDs sold
  53. what is the actual harm? 5x sales downloaded for free -5%
  54. consequence?
  55. drop in sales by 5%
  56. 5x free ?> 5% decline
  57. so a harm, but small compared to the IT industry
  58. long term
  59. Focus:
  60. gYou canft compete with freeh
  61. really?
  62. water
  63. legal research
  64. my lectures
  65. filled with examples
  66. same with content too
  67. soon.
  68. Our problem: we are responding to architecture as it is now
  69. grearranging deck chairs on the Titanich
  70. As it is now:
  71. cheap disk space thin pipes
  72. consequence: hoard
  73. Soon:
  74. cheaper disk space much fatter pipes
  75. ubiquitous, persistent broadband connection
  76. wireless
  77. not 3G
  78. meshed network wireless
  79. everything with electricity
  80. streaming content
  81. How compete in this world?
  82. First: streamed content can be controlled
  83. Second: competition thus about convenience
  84. maybe pay-per-view, maybe ads, maybe subscription
  85. business model
  86. Google e.g.
  87. But can you beat free?
  88. Picture(12)
  89. Good policy:
  90. Without internet lockdown
  91. We could get protected IP
  92. If we answered the problem in the interim.
  93. Interim answer:
  94. Same as we always have.
  95. 1900s sheet music napsterized player piano
  96. gthefth
  97. no gthefth
  98. compulsory license
  99. 1950s broadcast TV napsterized cable TV
  100. gthefth
  101. no gthefth
  102. compulsory license
  103. could do the same here
  104. Nielsen: 5 year moratorium
  105. gour propertyh
  106. (B) Platforms
  107. three stories
  108. 1934 organ recital Empire State Building Long Island
  109. less static
  110. higher fidelity
  111. RCA
  112. gI thought Armstrong would invent some kind of a filter to remove static from our AM radio. I didn't think hefd start a revolution -- start up a whole damn new industry to compete with RCA.h
  113. FCC
  114. patents
  115. 6 years
  116. 1954
  117. 1964 Paul Baran Rand Department of Defense
  118. gpacket switchingh
  119. AT&T
  120. (1) gwill never possibly workh
  121. (2) gdamned if wefll allow the creation of a competitor to ourself.h
  122. (3) cable guys
  123. 1990s AT&Tfs Excite@Home cable internet service stream TV to computers
  124. 1999 Daniel Sommers: gWe didn't spend $56 billion on a cable network to have the blood sucked out of our veinsh
  125. networks of the past:
  126. smart networks
  127. power to protect against new competition
  128. internet:
  129. end-to-end
  130. simple networks smart applications
  131. neutral platform
  132. new ideas
  133. networks cannot protect themselves
  134. e.g.
  135. electricity grids
  136. highways
  137. but increasingly:
  138. threat to neutrality
  139. gour propertyh
  140. networks architecting network as they want
  141. gpolicy based routingh
  142. MS Xbox
  143. Disney movie
  144. content and applications as network owner allows
  145. Strange bedfellows
  146. Microsoft Disney eBay Media Access Project
  147. "government [to] ensure" the "ability of consumers and business to communicate with one another ... without obstruction from network service providers."
  148. govft to assure neutral platforms
  149. LeggMason: gkey policy issue c the extent to which the network provider can restrict the customers' use of the network."
  150. again: conflict over property
  151. balanced property right
  152. increased innovation
  153. <Conclusion>
  154. extreme ideal about property
  155. confuses both content and platform debate
  156. innovation of network produced by balance
  157. not extreme
  158. yet policy in America increasingly extreme