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Re: Happy Anniversary Napster, and Thanks for Your Impact on Scholarly Communication
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- Subject: Re: Happy Anniversary Napster, and Thanks for Your Impact on Scholarly Communication
- From: Greg Tananbaum <gtananbaum@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:49:16 EDT
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Simon makes an excellent point. The impact of Napster is that it brought the notion of information sharing to a whole new level - exchanging lots of content among lots of people suddenly became easy and commonplace. Napster also demonstrated that the consequences of copyright breach were minimal for all but a few bad-luck cases prosecuted (some would say persecuted) as examples. This reinforced the perception that Simon calls out, namely that information is not property. Best, Greg Greg Tananbaum Consulting Services at the Intersection of Technology, Content, & Academia (510) 295-7504 greg@scholarnext.com http://www.scholarnext.com
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