Comments on: Web 2.0 will make us all into middlemen http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/03/04/web-20-will-make-us-all-into-middlemen/ Niko Nyman's blog on shifting topics. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:54:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Niko http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/03/04/web-20-will-make-us-all-into-middlemen/#comment-24270 Niko Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:20:10 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/03/04/web-20-will-make-us-all-into-middlemen/#comment-24270 <p>Experience tells me this balance only works for so long. Eventually (for most people at least) there comes the tipping point when they forget they traded their photos for the right to use everyone else's photos, and they start to demand royalties. When that happens, I don't know.</p> <p>Someone might be happy if a big travel agency uses their photos. They might be happy if a small guy selling shirts uses their photos. But the same people might also get greedy when the small guy buys a Porsche with the shirt money.</p> <p>So, I think the balance is never truly and equally balanced, and it only works as long as you don't notice the lean.</p> Experience tells me this balance only works for so long. Eventually (for most people at least) there comes the tipping point when they forget they traded their photos for the right to use everyone else’s photos, and they start to demand royalties. When that happens, I don’t know.

Someone might be happy if a big travel agency uses their photos. They might be happy if a small guy selling shirts uses their photos. But the same people might also get greedy when the small guy buys a Porsche with the shirt money.

So, I think the balance is never truly and equally balanced, and it only works as long as you don’t notice the lean.

]]> By: Janne http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/03/04/web-20-will-make-us-all-into-middlemen/#comment-24257 Janne Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:02:42 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/03/04/web-20-will-make-us-all-into-middlemen/#comment-24257 <p>I think it's a fair trade - after all, if other people get to use my pictures to make money, I can use their pictures to make money for myself.</p> <p>However, if this balance is broken, then we're in trouble. Which is one of the reasons DRM sucks. DRM is not something everyone can afford, and therefore it tilts the balance (or would, if it wasn't so easy to break).</p> I think it’s a fair trade - after all, if other people get to use my pictures to make money, I can use their pictures to make money for myself.

However, if this balance is broken, then we’re in trouble. Which is one of the reasons DRM sucks. DRM is not something everyone can afford, and therefore it tilts the balance (or would, if it wasn’t so easy to break).

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