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Pirate's Dilemmaadastra said Jun 30, 2008, 10:05 PM: |
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Avast! Matt Mason, author of The Pirate's Dilemma, sez, “Jesse Alexander (producer of Heroes and Lost) and I have been working on turning The Pirate's Dilemma into a TV show, we've just put a teaser up for what that show might look like here: Jesse read the book and saw the pirates I talked about from the worlds of youth culture as real life heroes - people with no special powers who managed to to turn society and old business models upside down with superhuman strength. We connected and started working on this idea, along with John Carluccio and Mark Kotlinski from CurrentTV. The trailer is an early sketch of where we are going with this. “Also I finally got my publishers to put the book out as a pay-what-you-want PDF!” Link to video, Link to downloadable PDF (Thanks, Matt!) See also: (source) |
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Re: Pirate's DilemmaINTo EverythinG for ReAL said Jul 1, 2008, 5:48 AM: |
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Looks like a case of pre-trans confusion (but in what lines exactly)? I have two guess regrading the pirate dilemma. 1) It's mostly a moral-line problem. Are people pirating information for strictly personal/selfish reasons. Or, for to push our moral boundaries how we view the world. If this interpretation is correct then our take on piracy ought to be focused on from what moral level is the act of piracy coming from. The second take is slightly more convoluted and involves more of a mixture of the moral line with the cognitive line. 2) A high cognitive development with red egoic morality = bad piracy and high cognition with high morality = good and useful piracy. |
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Re: Pirate's Dilemmaadastra said Jul 1, 2008, 10:14 AM: |
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Pre-trans comes up a lot in the current battles over copyright, for sure, on all sides of the issue. I tend to come down heavily on the side of promoting transparency and the free flow of information. I feel that's the best way to foster evolutionary development in individuals and groups; to promote and preserve the greatest depth for the greatest span. So net neutrality is good, and - generally speaking - copyright practices that inhibit creativity and access to information are bad. |
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Re: Pirate's Dilemmaadastra said Jul 15, 2008, 4:26 PM: |
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AVAST!
How do you start a movement with a marker pen? What’s the connection between the nun who invented disco, and file sharing? How did a male model messing with disco records in New York in the 1970s influence the way Boeing design airplanes? Does hip-hop really hold the secret to world peace? How did three eleven-year-olds revolutionize the video game industry by turning Nazis into Smurfs? And what’s going to happen to Nike when it’s possible for kids to download sneakers? The Pirate’s Dilemma tells the story of how youth culture drives innovation and is changing the way the world works. It offers understanding and insight for a time when piracy is just another business model, the remix is our most powerful marketing tool and anyone with a computer is capable of reaching more people than a multi-national corporation. Do we fight pirates, or do we learn from them? Ideas that started within punk, disco, hip-hop, rave, graffiti and gaming have been combined with new technologies and taken to new heights by the generations that grew up under their influence. With a cast of characters that includes such icons as The Ramones, Andy Warhol, Madonna, Russell Simmons, Pharrell and 50 Cent, The Pirate’s Dilemma uncovers, for the first time, the trends that transformed underground scenes into burgeoning global industries and movements, ultimately changing life as we know it, unraveling some of our most basic assumptions about business, society and our collective future. As a result people, companies and organizations are now struggling with a new dilemma in increasing numbers. As piracy continues to change the way we all use information, how should we respond? Do we fight pirates, or do we learn from them? Should piracy be treated as a problem, or a solution? To compete or not to compete - that is the question – that is the Pirate’s Dilemma, perhaps one of the most important economic and cultural conundrums of the 21st Century. The book is coming out on January 8th, 2008 in the U.S. through Free Press. the U.K. version will be out spring 2008 through Penguin. This website is where I’ll be documenting everything I can about the Pirate’s Dilemmas all of us are facing, and how youth culture is continuing to change the wider world. |
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