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Counterfeiting : Documentary on the Business of Counterfeits and Knock-Offs . 2013 This documentary as well as the rest of these documentaries shown here rel...

Xiaomi has definitely been growing fast in emerging markets, but until now the company has focused mostly on stealing as much of Samsung's Chinese smartphone market share as it can. According to Ga...

Student artist Sures Kumar tried to make a statement by stealing art from Behance portfolios, then Behance asked him to stop. Fearing an expensive...

perfect ending to a perfect semester. thank you Jack for opening our minds.

...wow.

Fake vs. Real. You decide. 

UK profits for the supermarket are up almost 32 per cent year-on-year. It has just opened its 500th store in Britain and has promised another 50 are on their way.

The other is Yves Behar's Jawbone Jambox. You decide which is which.

Nokia N1 Revealed (cough - a clone of the iPad mini). 

Nokia is back in the devices business just under seven months after selling its devices and services unit to Microsoft for $7.2 billion. Nokia is unveiling its N1 Android tablet today, days after...

Scarcity makes art expensive, but the scarcity in literature is not the same, because if a published prints and sells 10,000 copied,  they are tempted to print more, and have to worry about other folks photocopying these books—they will never become scarce, unless one is trying to obtain 18th century copy of Voltaire for several hundred dollars. The books authors are writing, as stated in an earlier post. The work isn’t their own, but an amalgam of various sources. For novelist this isn't the case because they write about scenarios. I’ve taken a writing course months ago, a professor stated that publishers won’t consider novels over 25 pages (I believe). Sadly, people don’t have the patience flipping through pages, rather have their eyes glued to a computer screen. Water is available to all people, its controversial, but it still considered a public good. Radio music is free and also public parks and librarys. Private goods are products and services that are monetized in most cases, or given to a selected few. Stalder mentions common-pool goods, or ‘club goods’ which reminds me of fitness or Netflix memberships, CTA fare. Stalder speaks about ‘club goods’ like we talk about public domain, free access to information. And when he mentions, the book belonging to you, and you the literature—yes, we do in most cases benefit from the information read, or learn lessons from it. After all, that’s why the author writes. Again, they have in an interest, and want to share it with the public (earlier post).

Charles Bernstein's “Lift Off” — a poem transcribed from the correction tape of his IBM typewriter.