Delivered-To: void@tr909.mediaconsult.com From: "Simon Batistoni" To: Subject: RE: (void) the cyberiad Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:13:33 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal Precedence: bulk List-Id: > translation is free of copyright, yeah? Well, we've established that it isn't, but I wonder how far you can go to replace or 'broaden' the concept of translation. > how far would one have to go - > translating a text into the same language as the original - to be > copyrightfree? It's too early and I was coding too late last night for me to parse your text fully, and I think you might be coming from the same sort of direction, but... Screw direct inter-lingual translation for a moment, how would the laws stemming from the Berne Convention view a complete re-working of a piece? The same events as... Bridget Jones's Diary, for example (I know, lame example, but work with me), but seen entirely through the eyes of one of the men? Or her pet cat? Harry Potter from the Dark Side's point of view. Is the sequence of events in these narratives protectable, even if viewed in a completely different way? > would it be nice to have a hinternet of our own, secure, dynamic? > would it be nice to share exactly as much as you wanted to? Wow. As I just said on IRC, I've been searching for this word for months to describe where I think communities like (void) might be headed as the rest of the net consolidates and merges together. I can't see any realistic long-term options except the domination of the net by maybe 3 or 4 players, who will control dial-up, content, mail and everything else. Most users, and pretty much all new users are going to go out onto this safe, controlled web, where big media companies feed you crap, and everyone's safe from pornographers. But I'm hoping that places like (void) won't be swallowed up and bundled off the net when this happens. That we'll still exist outside AOL-Time-Warner-EMI-Yahoo-Cadbury-Coca-Cola-Schweppes-Nike's gates. That there will still be hopelessly creative people putting ridiculous memes onto their own private servers. That... blah blah blah. Basically, the hinternet will be what's left of folk like us when the rest of the internet gets mainstreamed to death. Not lucid at all. Sorry. V Tired.