http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2009/06/24/mark-helprins-non-digital-barbarism/ News and analysis about the market for rights technologies. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2009/06/24/mark-helprins-non-digital-barbarism/#comment-181 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:35:45 +0000 http://copyrightandtechnology.com/?p=271#comment-181 Ignoring Helprin’s silly argument, the big problem is that information or “content” has now moved to the PC/internet, a completely new technological platform, yet unimaginative creators continue to want to take their old forms and place them online. We will see an explosion of new forms of media online, where you’re only limited by what ideas you can get a programmer to code for you, but hand-wringing about the value of content is all creators seem to want to do. The reason for this is that content creators are economically and technologically illiterate so they’re waiting for the techies to build a platform for them, that they can then jump onto. However, the techies are economically illiterate and so have never deployed a usable micropayments system. This might finally be changing this year as the WSJ has announced that they’re working on a micropayments system, MySpace claims to have one in the works too. Micropayments are the key, they will catalyze all the change that is necessary. People do not experiment unless they know they’ll get paid for it.

]]> http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2009/06/24/mark-helprins-non-digital-barbarism/#comment-180 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:39:02 +0000 http://copyrightandtechnology.com/?p=271#comment-180 Well, that’s not the actual book I’m writing, but I expect I will meet your other criteria.

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