Internet Laws Revisited
October 27, 2009
I am an old, addled goose. I read “Internet Rules and Laws: The Top 10, from Godwin to Poe”. I was puzzled. The laws struck me as an odd mix of CollegeHumor.com and an Onion article. The source was the Telegraph, a newspaper that is printed on very large sheets of paper. The Web site’s bread crumbs indicated that the story was News and tagged Technology. I understand the Internet is a buzzword used without definition. Technology makes the Internet chug along. The laws indicate that the Internet is a pretty miserable place. In fact, one law—Rule 34—converts information into pornography. Nice.
Here are three observations from the Beyond Search regulatory archive:
- The business processes of the Internet will erode the revenues of traditional publishing and information companies.
- The children of traditional publishing company executives use tools, software, services, and systems that undermine the efforts of their parents to prevent such erosion.
- The Internet has given birth to a “digital Gutenberg” that marginalizes traditional publishing and information companies.
Unlike the Telegraph’s story, I am not joking.
Stephen Arnold, October 27, 2009
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