Good Heavens! Paid Content!
Sunlight Research is sponsoring a Webinar (paid) on the Oracle-Google case on Sept. 8. Note the business model here – an Internet session put on by a patent expert, complete with background materials distributed in pdf, for a charge, as a commercial venture.
Will the Larry Lessig/Tim Wu/Free Press crowd react with horrorified cries of how information should be free, and urge the BitTorrent users of America to capture and re-stream the session and pirate the materials? Why should people be allowed to pay to get information from an expert when they can get the blatherings of know-nothings for free?
Mashup from Decision Stats.
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