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[Vincent Cayenne]

At 12:14 PM -0500 3/27/04, Alex wrote:
>A succinct account of the story can be found at 
><http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/software/cddb_wsj_12.31.01.pdf>, and 
>it's endorsed by Ti Kan, who started it all. What the article 
>doesn't cover is the fact that a highly significant fraction of the 
>value of CDDB was due to volunteer contributors. In other words, 
>those who reaped the profits of the sale of CDDB reaped the profits 
>of unpaid labour.

Thanks for the article. Matter-of-factly, well-written. And I concur 
with your take on it. I'm sure that I admire the vision and 
initiative of the originators but I feel certain that the value added 
by the submitters was significant and "under-rewarded". But then, I 
suppose one can entertain similar reservations about the business 
model of efforts like MacFixit, and the purchase of the Deja News 
Usenet archives, and so on. It seems that we've come to tacitly 
accept that the aggregator owns the individuals' contributions (and 
yet avoids responsibility for any downside to that content). Am I 
ranting yet <g>?
-- 
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded 
our humanity."
- Albert Einstein