Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.
Today, an endless, recombinant, and fundamentally social process generates countless hours of creative product (another antique term?). To say that this poses a threat to the record industry is simply comic. The record industry, though it may not know it yet, has gone the way of the record. Instead, the recombinant (the bootleg, the remix, the mash-up) has become the characteristic pivot at the turn of our two centuries.
We live at a peculiar juncture, one in which the record (an object) and the recombinant (a process) still, however briefly, coexist. But there seems little doubt as to the direction things are going.
bonglonglong
life, love, travel and a bucket of poo
Boing Boing: William Gibson - Remixing Good
Posted by mordred on July 06, 2005 at 11:30 AM
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
0
comments
Boing Boing: European Software Patents Defeated
Posted by mordred on July 06, 2005 at 11:28 AM
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
It is official now - Europe embraces freedom more that America. After all of the Nazi business in WWII, I would be better off in Germany now than here. I'm moving.
You have won the fight to keep software patents -- America's disastrous, failed system for awarding exclusive rights to mathematical instructions -- out of Europe. Despite the other side's nonstop dirty tricks, subversion of democracy, and outright lies, the will of the people has been upheld in the Euro Parliament.
It is official now - Europe embraces freedom more that America. After all of the Nazi business in WWII, I would be better off in Germany now than here. I'm moving.
Software patents have been staked through the heart before, but they keep rising from the grave. There's too much monopoly rent waiting to be extracted by anti-competitive companies for them to simply give up and go home. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Corporations own the law
Posted by mordred on June 30, 2005 at 05:31 PM
Geeks Unite
Easily the scariest thing going on in our country right now has nothing to do with homeless people or the war in Iraq. I'm not afraid of Al-Qaeda, I'm afraid of the police.
Chip Salzenburg, who is a well respected member of the programming community had all of his computers seized by the cops because his company suspected him of stealing company code. Couldn't prove it (because he didn't, although I won't bore you with a discussion of how CVS works) - they just told the cops they thought he might be doing something bad, so they took ALL of his computer equipment. Then, after they still couldn't prove anything, they gave it all to the company. Of course, Chip doesn't have the kind of monetary or legal resources that the Company does.
If you think this is odd or a singular occurance, the scariest part is that it has happened before. This even happened 2 months ago. Anybody heard about it in the news? No. Will you? No.
GOD-DAMMIT!
BE FORWARNED! Your tools of your trade, the children's computers, your spouse or roommate's work computer, the router/cable modem, files of correspondence between the you and the employer are ALL subject to being seized "under the color of law." All your personal information, family records, tools of your trade...gone...locked up in some evidence locker indefinitely. If that weren't bad enough every working person in the household may be now be at risk of losing their jobs because their computers were seized and you can't even Google for help.
Easily the scariest thing going on in our country right now has nothing to do with homeless people or the war in Iraq. I'm not afraid of Al-Qaeda, I'm afraid of the police.
Chip Salzenburg, who is a well respected member of the programming community had all of his computers seized by the cops because his company suspected him of stealing company code. Couldn't prove it (because he didn't, although I won't bore you with a discussion of how CVS works) - they just told the cops they thought he might be doing something bad, so they took ALL of his computer equipment. Then, after they still couldn't prove anything, they gave it all to the company. Of course, Chip doesn't have the kind of monetary or legal resources that the Company does.
If you think this is odd or a singular occurance, the scariest part is that it has happened before. This even happened 2 months ago. Anybody heard about it in the news? No. Will you? No.
WHY THE FUCK DOES NO ONE CARE ABOUT HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS ASS-RAPING EVERYONE?
Just because it's on a computer or about information intellectual property rights doesn't make it less important than pollution - have you noticed how much of the world is based on computers? Remember that dumb-ass Sandra Bullock film "The Net"? Sort of bogus, except that we're getting closer and closer and no one is complaining.GOD-DAMMIT!
Pakistan is down! Pakistan is down!
Posted by mordred on June 28, 2005 at 01:06 PM
A guy at work just told me that Pakistan's internet access is down. Granted, I know that "some guy at work" isn't the most reliable source of info, but he's one of those guys who doesn't speak unless he's fairly sure about something. I, of course, have no such restrictions.
A few weeks ago, my server provider's facility in Virginia went down due to a power failure. The main reason to host with someone being that you don't want to have to deal with power failure effects, this was a bit shocking. Come to find out, backup power switched on properly, as did the generators. What didn't happen was the switch that moves the building on to the generator. Since batteries only have so much juice, the AC wasn't connected to the battery backup and the building got REAL hot, REAL quick.
The more interesting thing I learned was that Amazon.com has half of their servers in the same facility, so I'm fairly sure it won't happen again.
Back to Pakistan. Apparently Pakistan has one undersea cable connecting it to the world, and apparently there is a problem with a router or something. I guess I don't need to tell Musharaf that the whole design of the Internet is such that this shouldn't happen. He's probably very aware of that now. Maybe if he weren't at war with India, he could route some packets across the border in that direction. I guess that's what comes from being a cock.
A few weeks ago, my server provider's facility in Virginia went down due to a power failure. The main reason to host with someone being that you don't want to have to deal with power failure effects, this was a bit shocking. Come to find out, backup power switched on properly, as did the generators. What didn't happen was the switch that moves the building on to the generator. Since batteries only have so much juice, the AC wasn't connected to the battery backup and the building got REAL hot, REAL quick.
The more interesting thing I learned was that Amazon.com has half of their servers in the same facility, so I'm fairly sure it won't happen again.
Back to Pakistan. Apparently Pakistan has one undersea cable connecting it to the world, and apparently there is a problem with a router or something. I guess I don't need to tell Musharaf that the whole design of the Internet is such that this shouldn't happen. He's probably very aware of that now. Maybe if he weren't at war with India, he could route some packets across the border in that direction. I guess that's what comes from being a cock.
Subscribe