{"id":217,"date":"2006-02-17T07:12:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/02\/17\/yes-information-does-want-to-be-free\/"},"modified":"2006-02-17T07:12:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:12:52","slug":"yes-information-does-want-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/02\/17\/yes-information-does-want-to-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, information does want to be free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Chervokas, former editor of @NY magazine, has <a href=\"http:\/\/chervokas.typepad.com\/trickster\/2006\/02\/media_wants_to_.html\">a great piece up<\/a> on his blog about the continuing stupidity of the current media \/DRM model (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2006\/02\/media_wants_to_.html\">Fred Wilson of A VC<\/a> for the link):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I like Howard Stern. I&#8217;m willing to pay $13 a month for the option of flipping over to his show when I feel like it. But I&#8217;m not willing to invest time, money, or aggravation in the hardware or installation services required to buy into the Sirius distribution network. I&#8217;m willing to pay for the content, but I want my content liberated, free to roam the network of networks until I pull it down to the device of my choice at the time of my choice for the personal use of my choice&#8230; end users want information to be network- and device-agnostic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason is totally right, as is Fred. And just after reading both of their takes on the issue, what do I come across but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/pc\/arch\/2006_02_16.shtml#053691\">this post at PaidContent<\/a>, in which Staci points to Walt Mossberg&#8217;s review in the Wall Street Journal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB114004422550975189-NOV3Fgvzo59oF6wxjxuwy9t8udQ_20070216.html?mod=blogs\">ESPN phone<\/a> &#8211; which comes with all kinds of ESPN content, but is so restricted and locked down and cumbersome in what it allows that it sounds like a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Chervokas, former editor of @NY magazine, has a great piece up on his blog about the continuing stupidity of the current media \/DRM model (hat tip to Fred Wilson of A VC for the link): &#8220;I like Howard Stern. I&#8217;m willing to pay $13 a month for the option of flipping over to his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/02\/17\/yes-information-does-want-to-be-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yes, information does want to be free&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}