Rezension zu Robert Levines Buch Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back (New York, 2011)
Rezension zu Robert Levines Buch Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back (New York, 2011)
"The term ‘path dependence’ is generally used to describe the development of technological standards and how they ‘lock in’ a given technical solution. The QWERTY keyboard is often given as an example of path dependence – the fact that the costs of changing the keyboard to a better, more efficient solution, hinders change. The same can be said about much of the copyright legislation today, but then at the expense of privacy and other rights."
