Google’s ultra high speed Internet project aims to bring Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri Internet speeds 100 times the current U.S. average. This has Hollywood petrified. Will users with gigabit connections pirate enough movies to decimate the movie industry’s revenue? Will piracy crush Hollywood in the way that it crushed the music industry? Not if Hollywood is smart: they need to CAREFULLY study how the Linux kernel is developed, and how Free Software is developed in general.
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spanky
12 years 22 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago
Illegal copying HELPS hollywood
Please don't call it "piracy". Illegal copying is nothing but free publicity for them. And it keeps you from discovering new artists who make good stuff and who aren't represented by the MAFIAA.
hollywood is the enemy, see e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intelle...
Just have nothing whatsoever to do with hollywood.