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  I Believe In The Internet - The Content Industry Doesn't

  bradburnham:

  I have always believed that the entertainment industry’s effort to stop piracy by asking search engines and ISPs to make it more difficult for their users to find pirate sites was the wrong way to solve the problem, but it could never put my finger on why I felt so strongly about it. After all, the entertainment industry argues that they are only targeting the worst pirates and are only asking for help because those pirates are offshore and out of the reach of U.S. authorities.
  
  At a dinner earlier this week, Joi Ito, the head of the Media Lab at MIT described the Internet as a “belief system” and I suddenly understood. The Internet is not just a series of pipes. It’s core architecture embeds an assumption about human nature. The Internet is designed to empower individuals not control them. It assumes that the if individuals are empowered, they will do the right thing the vast majority of the time. Services like eBay, Craigslist, Etsy and AirBnB are built on the assumption that most people are honest. Other services like Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, Wordpress, and Soundcloud assume people will be generous with their ideas, insights and creations. Wikipedia has proven that people will share their knowledge. Companies like Kickstarter show that people will even be generous with their money. This does not mean that there are not bad people out there. All of these companies spend a lot of time and money to battle spam and fraud. The companies are simply betting that there are many more good people than bad. The architecture of the Internet shares this assumption. It could have been designed to prevent bad behavior. Instead its design empowers good behavior.

  The entertainment industry does not share this view of human nature.

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     artificially high...media during the stereo age....and...

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     artificially high...media during the stereo age....and...

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     artificially high...media during the stereo age....and...

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     artificially high...media during the stereo age....and...

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     artificially high...media during the stereo age....and...

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      artificially high...media during the stereo age....and...

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      Brad Burnham’s astute take...digital media was originally intended

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      Seeing technological changes...profitable relationship

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      Great post from Brad...PIPA legislation.

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      fascinating. bradburnham:

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