Jason Silverman in today’s Wired News: Darknet Casts Hollywood as Heavy. Excerpt:
Hollywood is terrified of your computer. Movie industry bigwigs know your PC can help you create your own movies, or, worse, copy and tweak theirs. So, like a jealous lover, the entertainment industry worries: Is your computer offering you the fulfillment we can’t? Are you going to buy fewer of our movie tickets, DVDs and CDs?
Author J.D. Lasica says Hollywood is waging battles on several fronts to make sure that doesn’t happen. In his comprehensive, sometimes chilling new book, Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation, Lasica details the entertainment industry’s strategies for maintaining control of content in the rip-mix-burn age. …
Wired News also published an excerpt from chapter 2 of the book, “Now Playing: Hollywood vs. the Digital Freedom Fighters.”
And, I missed this last week: the Miami Herald was the first newspaper or magazine to run a review of Darknet: The gatekeepers strive to stifle innovation. A new wave of business opportunities is threatened by entrenched resistance to digital innovation.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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