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February 15, 2006
Rob the Mint
Rob the Mint: Shaun Inman describes how theft of his web-analytics tool Mint imposes actual costs on others. (My take: All digital producers are at risk of having their work exploited, it's just that the problem appeared first with software and then music.) But Shaun proposes a novel solution, a Firefox extension which would tabulate out-of-license Mint uses. There's a followup post where he reacts to the previous commentary. When the cost of copying becomes zero we need to figure out new social/economic systems, but I'm not sure how to get from here to there yet....
Posted by John Dowdell at February 15, 2006 03:02 PM
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>> When the cost of copying becomes zero we need to figure out new social/economic systems
gee, it almost sounds like the utopian society in Star Trek Next Gen when replicators destroyed capitalism...and people craft things for the love of it (freeware?)
Posted by: barry.b at February 15, 2006 10:44 PM