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- Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Congress: "But... But we can't make money off of something that's free!"
- DorkmasterFlek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19The Web didn't succeed on licensing technologies, it succeeded on making open and inter-operable technologies. There's no such thing as "open DRM" and DRM is the antithesis of why the Web succeeded. You lose. Good day, sir.
- turrican, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Actually, wanna know the REAL reason it succeded?
Free pr0n! - bonch, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20Anyone miss the days when the web wasn't dominated by typo-ridden high school kids pirating everything under the sun and posting stupid "me too" posts on message boards? It used to be that only intelligent people used the Internet.
Digg used to be a much smarter place, with programming tutorials and IT articles on the front page. In the course of a year, it morphed into a repository of endless RIAA articles and self-referential Digg/Kevin Rose links. - hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17haha
luckily this guy sounds like he gets it...
FTA
"In their statements before testimony began, the assembled representatives laid out their concerns: child pornography, network neutrality, the future evolution of the Web, and whether the Web was being used as an excuse for more offline media consolidation. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) sounded less than thrilled with some of the doom-and-gloom scenarios put before the committee in the past, telling Berners-Lee that the Web has become "the scapegoat of everyone who comes before this committee these days." - straxus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@bonch.
No. I was on the net back in 94. I'm not much of an elitist, and I prefer having instant access to hundreds of times more information than I did then. - zengonzo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9me too
- kooft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9No I'm, aren't
- dougsnell, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19We know the web is really a series of tubes; our wise congressman told us that. Who is this guy trying to fool?
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17i'd hope berners-lee "gets it"... he invented it :P
- neuroticus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8A lot of truth in that statement.
- bonch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10No, it succeeded due to intelligent people building networks with each other from university to university. The free porn was what attracted all the morons.
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Anyone miss the days when the web wasn't dominated by typo-ridden high school kids pirating everything under the sun and posting stupid "me too" posts on message boards? It used to be that only intelligent people used the Internet."
Much of the pirating world existed pre-Internet. It was just decentralized to small networks of BBS's or single BBS systems. There has NEVER been a time when typos weren't considered "kewl" among this group of individuals.
However, your statement regarding "me too" comments and posts is accurate, these did not exist in abundance till international forums started appearing. Many a time, someone from another country will want to indicate they agree with what someone says, but cannot elaborate for fear of being chastized because English is not their first language.
As far as intelligence goes, I can't comment other then to mention you are using a popular website and one of the drawbacks of popularity is that it draws those that just want to be entertained, not those that are looking for an education. - Cattttt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I had a pic of Tim Berners-Lee in my cube at work. When people asked who he was, I'd say - he invented the World Wide Web. They'd ALWAYS laugh and make an Al Gore joke, and then I'd tell them no, he really did.
Great guy. When he talks, I listen. - Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8@kushed: hiPpymlck was talking about Rep. Mike Doyle.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4sadly, this is a fine example of the phrase "casting pearls before swine."
- intangible, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Now we know Gore's Digg nickname: zengonzo!
- theDevilsDue, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Marked as inaccurate. We all know Al Gore invented the internet.
- straxus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@geekee
If Fairplay were not proprietary, there would be no need to license it. It would be an open standard, and we could see how it worked. And break it. Sorry, but a call for Apple to license Fairplay has nothing to do with open standards. You usually troll better than this. I'm disappointed. - zengonzo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Cute.
I don't give a damn about Gore, frankly, but every time I hear that stupid, desperate joke I cringe in fear over the relentless march of zombiedom.
It isn't nearly funny enough to warrant its ignorance. - GRTWHT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1His 'hope' for the future, "The idea here is that the mobile devices will function a bit like headless computers; personal data and applications can be carried around in one's pocket, then accessed and used at any location that provides a screen."
Hmmm, sounds a LOT like this:
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Wizpy_stupid_name_very_cool_Linux_toy
(Just ignore the fact it says Linux and think of your preferred OS instead) - zengonzo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Bill
Know your *****' history. - swordedge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This story caused me to remember when Microsoft started MSN. It was supposed to crush both AOL and the internet. Microsoft didn't then and doesn't now get it.
- rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I have to object. Everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5I think the real reason the Web has succeeded is because it has low barriers to entry; i.e. anyone can make a website (although it might make your eyes bleed). It inherently caters to the ego, so it took off from there. Open standards came later. Heck, Berners-Lee himself overrode whatever the current "standards" of the day were when he was writing HTML as a subset of SGML--ignoring convention and making it work. Seems like he's forgotten his own history to me.
- xerigen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You know what's scary? A LOT of people don't get that joke, and really think that Al Gore did invent the Internet
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Universal access and advertising made the web a success. Open standards just made it viable for ISP's to "tap in".
- VANOS, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yes, he did, but can he harness the power of his interwebs to cool this obviously way-hot planet?
- BullTaco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0>DRM is the antithesis of why the Web succeeded.
Only if the existence of DRM makes all information proprietary, which it doesn't. Perhaps only .0001 %?
Most proprietary information is not evened governed by any sort of DRM. It is held by organizations as a way of generating profit as trade secret.
The internet has flourished in spite of this. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0HMMM, LETS SEE NOW....Us British invented the Web, some of the core Internet technology, computers, television etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc......
Are we ***** great? YEAH we're ***** great. Oh, and we had the biggest empire on the planet in history. Evar.
Pwned. - kushed, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4no ***** he gets it. Did you even read his qualification?
- djmik83, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Umm no. Al Gore created the internet.
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3Maybe Apple could learn a lesson from this. They should license their DRM, rather than keeping it proprietary.
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