This not a joke but a quite serious question to maybe have your point of view about this very topic of content on the net. So I start this poll to ask the users if they can imagine that the so called content industry of former times sooner or later or anyway will regain lost ground or not? Do you think this kind of oligarchy of huge power houses from the past or from today will win against the community driving the net? :wall:
Well to get this straight, it ain't about politicians. They come and they go. Empires rise and fall. Ancient Rome tought all the others "divide et impera". The ones you choose are not in charge, the real power you never vote, because it is not on the election campaign. It is indeed about the technical standards all of us are using. It may be a nautic mile, the original meter, Celsius or Farenheit or the RFCs by the IANA where all the well known global players are involved to grab their future technical claim affecting my daily life. About bloatware, updates or protocols dealing in a sophisticated way the matter of content. Giving two examples which are almost standards, never turned to be so, but most of us are using them. MP3 is now free of charge, turned the music world upside down, started out of nowhere and became the best known of all in the last twenty years or more. One recent hidden champ I would say is nginx, also coming from nowhere. Both of them handling content while I am typing this or loading it up. So thats my point: if the industry turns me down as a user due to their standards or I as a user turn my back on that same attitude of the industry. (I could mention my mobile phone from 2009 from a well known japanese brand, that already installed a copyright protection not using android, so it doesn't play certain tunes. Just because my recorded song from the 1980s that turned into an mp3 file and went onto that very celphone it is not in their database.) Thats what I mean. I truly don't give a dime about one single so called politician, no matter where he signs up. Nor the ministry of truth or some kind of that. Although some guy like Mr. Bannon can come from rags to riches working for a kind of financial dynasty. The bigger spin to that content came frome innovations like the mp3-format from the Fraunhofer-Institute or the man (men) behind ngnix. So is it a group of these so called global players (may you remember old brands that went bust, do you?) that determine a standard that goes almost down by law as an industrial or technical standard or is it the user ( the community ) that is in charge. That is what this poll should be about. If the net as it is and as it grows as well as intellectual property does should be handled by some RFCs of some IANA, going down by law or if any kind of content on air, online, should be what it is. Just there to be seen, read or listened whithout commercial, technical or legal restrictions, because you never know where there is a backup.
And by the way, two worldwide known brands are using sucessfully a BSD-homebrew, charging their clients to pay for that, this can be a play-station or a smartphone, doesn't matter. But it is an example about content borrowing. Truely public intellectual property turned into commercial property. To cut a long story short, are there too many attempts (technically seen) to control the users behaviour or is the user still having a slight chance to be in charge while using this instead of switching it off? A car without a steering wheel and whithout a driver or am I still sitting in the drivers seat or feeding my way?