I would like for someone to start a grass-roots movement to show the content owners that they need to think about their actions. At the moment it's a completely one-way street - the paying public has little rights in the digital time we live in. When I buy an eBook, I have less rights than when I buy a paper copy - same for movies / music etc.
The only way that we, the people, will get traction is to hit the owners where it hurts - their wallets.
I would like to propose that a movement gets started to ask folks all over the USA to refrain from watching TV / buying / renting / streaming music, movies, etc for ONE DAY. It can even be a day when there's nothing on TV :). If we can show a blip on the sales charts, that is sure to catch the attention.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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I would like for someone to start a grass-roots movement to show the content owners that they need to think about their actions. At the moment it's a completely one-way street - the paying public has little rights in the digital time we live in. When I buy an eBook, I have less rights than when I buy a paper copy - same for movies / music etc.
The only way that we, the people, will get traction is to hit the owners where it hurts - their wallets.
I would like to propose that a movement gets started to ask folks all over the USA to refrain from watching TV / buying / renting / streaming music, movies, etc for ONE DAY. It can even be a day when there's nothing on TV :). If we can show a blip on the sales charts, that is sure to catch the attention.
How can we get this going...