http://technotaste.com/dev/larrydownes Consultant and Author - Strategy, Technology, and Law Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:45:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new report just out from Forrester confirms my long-standing view that the migration of American households to a digital life is accelerating, the leading side-effect of the Law of Disruption. A summary of the report in The New York Times on Sept. 2, 2009 notes that the speed with which ... http://technotaste.com/dev/larrydownes/2009/the-disruptive-power-of-digital-life/ When is a comic book worth $3,600,000 more than its face value? Answer: When Walt Disney wants to buy it. Today, Disney announced it had agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4 billion. Marvel, which only a few years ago was mired in bankruptcy, owns the rights ... http://technotaste.com/dev/larrydownes/2009/the-incredible-information-valuation/ In Chapter 9 of "The Laws of Disruption," I write about the ridiculous increases in statutory fines for copyright violations that the entertainment world has forced into law over the last few decades, even as the costs of production, marketing and distribution of content decrease with the advent of electronic ... http://technotaste.com/dev/larrydownes/2009/change-we-cant-believe-in-at-least-not-when-it-comes-to-copyright/ I made a lot of people in the Linux community unhappy when I wrote in CIO Insight ( "Battle over Linux: When a Win May Not Be a Win," Sept., 2007 ) that the decision by federal judge Dale Kimball to grant partial summary judgment to Novell on SCO's ... http://technotaste.com/dev/larrydownes/2009/the-sco-phoenix-rises-again/ I wrote extensively in Chapter 8 of The Laws of Disruption about the madness of prosecuting Lori Drew, a Missouri woman, for her participation in a cruel MySpace hoax that contributed to the suicide of a 13 year-old girl named Megan Meier. Drew's behavior aside, the decision by federal ... http://technotaste.com/dev/larrydownes/2009/lori-drew-verdict-finally-overturned/