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You a big fan of aggressive IP enforcement? Like to think a well-litigated market is a healthy market? Hate those little entrepreneurial nuisances like “competition from emerging media?”
Well, then, you would have loved the early 20th century.
Because you had to get Thomas Edison’s permission to make any movie. Then you had to pay him.
Pretty sweet, huh?
Posted on March 11, 2010 via kung fu grippe with 149 notes ()
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more I become convinced that Steve Jobs is
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