First, let me define myself as a content owner.
I am not a technology owner. Although I have been involved in the technology business for more than 20 years, the software that I have written is long outdated. The infrastructure and integration processes I have designed and developed may still be in use, but I dont control them.
For the longest time, including when we started Broadcast.com, I saw the content business as a lose lose proposition. Then content went digital.
Thats when my eyes opened up to the ownership of content. When content had to be distributed in analog or a physical format for delivery, all distribution could be controlled by just a few gatekeeper companies. Music Labels and Movie Studios owned distribution. In both industries anyone outside the major companies were called independent , and for a good reason. They were on their own, on the outside looking in.
When content went digital, the floodgates opened...
When Mark Cuban talks you should probably listen. He's rich and he's "crazy". Thank you Mark Cuban. You got the goods and you're doing good with them. Thanks.
Listen up everyone, download and run Grokster (yeah I know POS, but this is important). Share the CC license of your choice and share home movies, voice recordings, digipics, anything you own. Better idea, put the CC license name in the file name. Come up with a shorthand. For instance I authorize this paragraph with Attribution 2.0 CC license. It's now shared via Grokster as bs.CC-Att.txt
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