Hollywood controls the distribution pipeline (Theater,TV,DVD,etc) and the timing of each (the release). Hollywood advertises each to build up demand. So you can also beat Hollywood by solving the "advertising to build up demand" over the internet part of the equation. Right now it's
Facebook?
You could model after the pharmaceutical companies where
the drug gets a waiting period before generics can compete.
Use 12 months, Require downloadable files be zipped with a header that can be searched and automatically deleted.
Everything on the internet must be downloaded before it gets to you. Even if you suppose there's some censor out there looking for anything with the "copyright bit" set, it still wouldn't work, because so long as you could send two different messages that would pass some censor, you could encode one of them as a 0, the other as a 1, then do a horribly inefficient data transfer that bypasses whatever controls are in place.
You may think that's ridiculous, but things of that sort already exist. For example, there's a way to use DNS as a tunnel for other data. Yes, doing that is crazy.
If I'm incredibly pessimistic about this, it's because I've watched the long history of failure as many smart people attempted, then utterly failed, at doing this. One side must be perfect. The other needs just one opening. Games like that are so massively unfair that the only winning move is not to play. And you don't have to play: I've already pointed out how some artists have adapted and are doing good business. People want to support them. That's the way forward.
Maybe I'm wrong and someone will invent some magic technology that stops piracy. But anyone who is holding their breath waiting for it is very likely to suffocate. There are people looking for the way forward. It's just not a technical solution.
I noticed the same thing, though:
maps and local services, public affairs, and business
operations sound like departments best lead one on one.
I would assume the departments in the inner circle have more need for coordination and direct leadership.
I search forums for DIY home projects and have found I need at least 10 responses to my question before I can arrive at a result I feel comfortable with. Going back over the responses with the overview from the search, I can now understand responses that I originally thought were poor, weren't.
I keep thinking something like a do-it-yourself thread
builder that you build, save and share while you do your Google search, sort of a tumblr except you access multiple sites might be a better approach than an exclusion approach.
How about a display ad presenter that a user places at the bottom of their blog or their posterous. It doesn't pop up
or jump around but needs to be dragged up as if you are resizing your window in order to view the ad. The ads would
compete against magazine ads, not Google ads. This would be a proof of concept program.
I always thought that the best way to avoid losing a lot of money is to diversify and avoid leverage.
Derivatives is leverage big time, it's speculation, not investing, you can lose much more than you invested.
Diversify and avoiding leverage as a VC would be to invest a relatively small amount
of money over many potential companies.
So can avoiding leverage to conserve your investments work the same way with time?
Leverage as a small company might be like sub'ing out your work to others. I've never read anything positive with that approach.
How about at the personal level of the article -
some wasteful activities can be avoided but stuff like email is not going away.
So leverage this down time by multitasking. It would take me 4 hours of planning for 2 hour of programming.
While I wade thought these emails I am also going to think about, plan, research, and write down what my 2 hours of programming is going to be.
During these non productive downtimes, I can get really boring jobs done, the time passes quicker,
and I have a head start when my productive time starts.
It's just another form of stock options except cash always sounds better if the stock is going nowhere or your company doesn't have any stock to give. It's also an approximate 10% yearly bonus held for 5 years. I would rather have the bonus up front instead of the carrot on the string deal.
Maybe requiring registering and stress testing of HFTs over a specific volume is a solution. Or as a cost of registering a
HFT is a requirement to "make the market" whether the HFTer likes to or not , there should be plenty of opportunities to hedge or offset any unwanted positions.
Maybe Microsoft will have to redesign both the operating system and the PC architecture so that the PC still does the stuff of old on one half and competes with the cloud on the other.
