Tijd: Januari 10 2014 vanaf 19.00 tot 23.00
Locatie: Pakhuis de Zwijger Website of map: http://www.dezwijger.nl/Soort gebeurtenis: borrel, nieuwjaarsreceptie, 2014 Georganiseerd door: Freelance Friday
Traditiegetrouw verzorgt Steven Pemberton de eerste Freelance Friday van het jaar. Dat is ook ieder jaar weer een groot succes.
De presentatie is in het Engels / The presentation will be in English!
The True Cost of Content (Piracy and the Internet).
In the early days of broadcasting, newspapers prevented radio stations from broadcasting news reports for fear of competition; in the 1960's the record industry restricted the number of hours radio stations could play records; in the 1970's Hollywood tried to stop the introduction of video recorders to prevent people recording films from TV; in the 80's the record industry ran a campaign "Home taping is killing music". Existing industries are just scared of innovation.
So is file-sharing really so bad? Why do studies show that the people who file-share the most also spend the most on films and music? Why don't existing industries take advantage of file-sharing rather than try to stop it?
Before the internet, phone calls to far-away places would be more expensive than local calls. The internet has now demonstrated that this model was wrong: the cost of communication is not distance-based.
Now we see CDs of music often costing more than the DVD of a film, even though a film is much more expensive to produce. Why is this? Will the internet eventually show us the true cost of content in the same way it has shown us the true cost of communication?
Over de spreker:
Pemberton is onderzoeker bij het Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. Als lid van het World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), de organisatie die de ontwikkeling van ‘internet voor iedereen’ bewaakt, is hij co-auteur van onder meer HTML4 en CSS.
