author of his profit.
</para>
<para>
-Peer-to-peer sharing was made famous by Napster. But the inventors
-of the Napster technology had not made any major technological
- innovations.
-Like every great advance in innovation on the Internet (and,
- arguably,
-off the Internet as well<footnote><para>
+Peer-to-peer sharing was made famous by Napster. But the inventors of
+the Napster technology had not made any major technological
+innovations. Like every great advance in innovation on the Internet
+(and, arguably, off the Internet as well<footnote><para>
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See Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary
National Bestseller That Changed the Way We Do Business (New York:
HarperBusiness, 2000). Professor Christensen examines why companies
-that give rise to and dominate a product area are frequently unable to come
-up with the most creative, paradigm-shifting uses for their own products.
-This job usually falls to outside innovators, who reassemble existing
- technology
-in inventive ways. For a discussion of Christensen's ideas, see
-Lawrence Lessig, Future, 89–92, 139.
+that give rise to and dominate a product area are frequently unable to
+come up with the most creative, paradigm-shifting uses for their own
+products. This job usually falls to outside innovators, who
+reassemble existing technology in inventive ways. For a discussion of
+Christensen's ideas, see Lawrence Lessig, Future, 89–92, 139.
+<indexterm><primary>Christensen, Clayton M.</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>), Shawn Fanning and crew had simply
put together components that had been developed independently.
<indexterm><primary>Fanning, Shawn</primary></indexterm>
eighteen months, there were close to 80 million registered users of the
system.<footnote><para>
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-See Carolyn Lochhead, "Silicon Valley Dream, Hollywood Nightmare,"
-San Francisco Chronicle, 24 September 2002, A1; "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide,"
+See Carolyn Lochhead, "Silicon Valley Dream, Hollywood Nightmare," San
+Francisco Chronicle, 24 September 2002, A1; "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide,"
New Scientist, 6 July 2002, 42; Benny Evangelista, "Napster Names CEO,
-Secures New Financing," San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2003, C1;
- "Napster's
-Wake-Up Call," Economist, 24 June 2000, 23; John Naughton,
- "Hollywood
-at War with the Internet" (London) Times, 26 July 2002, 18.
+Secures New Financing," San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2003, C1;
+"Napster's Wake-Up Call," Economist, 24 June 2000, 23; John Naughton,
+"Hollywood at War with the Internet" (London) Times, 26 July 2002, 18.
</para></footnote>
Courts quickly shut Napster down, but other services emerged
to take its place. (Kazaa is currently the most popular p2p service. It
biting political commentary. A site called Camp Chaos has produced
some of the most biting criticism of the record industry that there is
through the mixing of Flash! and music.
+<indexterm><primary>Camp Chaos</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
All of these creations are technically illegal. Even if the creators
DDT, whatever its primary benefits, was also having unintended
environmental consequences. Birds were losing the ability to
reproduce. Whole chains of the ecology were being destroyed.
+<indexterm><primary>Carson, Rachel</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Silent Sprint (Carson)</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
No one set out to destroy the environment. Paul Müller certainly did
Lumbering giants not only don't, but should not, sprint. Yet if the
field is only open to the giants, there will be far too little
sprinting.
+<indexterm><primary>Christensen, Clayton M.</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
I don't think we know enough about the economics of the media