Comments on: Canadian ‘Casters Corner Cory O. http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/02/canadian_caster.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Dave Brodbeck http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/02/canadian_caster.html/comment-page-1#comment-43018 Dave Brodbeck Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:13:04 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2059#comment-43018 Thanks for the mention. Glyn and I loved talking with Cory. Dave Thanks for the mention. Glyn and I loved talking with Cory.

Dave

]]> By: Urizenus http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/02/canadian_caster.html/comment-page-1#comment-43017 Urizenus Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:09:53 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2059#comment-43017 I always thought that Lindens had the idea of going to Lessig to write up their IP rights. Whether that was a shared myth, I dunno. On Cory on his customers "roleplaying" entrepreneurs, yeah, it sort of seems that the Lindens love to whip up large batches of Kool Aide, but they don't drink it themselves. But if you ask me, that shit is delicious! I always thought that Lindens had the idea of going to Lessig to write up their IP rights. Whether that was a shared myth, I dunno.

On Cory on his customers “roleplaying” entrepreneurs, yeah, it sort of seems that the Lindens love to whip up large batches of Kool Aide, but they don’t drink it themselves. But if you ask me, that shit is delicious!

]]> By: Walker Spaight http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/02/canadian_caster.html/comment-page-1#comment-43016 Walker Spaight Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:18:34 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2059#comment-43016 My bad, Prok, not Uri's. I missed the Lessig event. In any case, I was referring more to the common mythology than to any claim on the part of LL. My bad, Prok, not Uri’s. I missed the Lessig event. In any case, I was referring more to the common mythology than to any claim on the part of LL.

]]> By: Prokofy Neva http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/02/canadian_caster.html/comment-page-1#comment-43015 Prokofy Neva Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:15:03 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2059#comment-43015 Uri, you'd be more of an expert on Linden mythology than me, but I didn't understand it to be a claim of LL's that they thought up that IP idea themselves. When Lessig was in SL lecturing recently, Philip said forthrightly that it was his idea from the podium. And the hype preceding the event made it clear it was his idea. (What I STILL don't get, though, and I wish someone would clear it up for me, is how Lessig can seemingly be against big corporations holding copyrights and trying to protect their property rights, and against copyright for old dead white guys especially which he feels is held on to "for too long", but then be for copyright for leaner corporations (little things on the Internet especially if they have kewl names -- at what point would then LL cross the line into being "evil" and "big" for Lessig?), and copyrights for live brown boys if they remix stuff from everybody else in Brazil, or live anybody in SL if they poach stuff off the Internet by right-clicking, then slap a "copyright" on it in SL, or use the evil corporation's software to make their stuff. I'm just not following this with the politically-correct rose-tinted opticals I guess.) There's been a ton of "Free Culture" events and hype from Hamlet Linden SL, with everybody in the group constantly being flogged to "vote" for officers and events, and to turn out and donate money to various venues for "Free Culture". I'm gathering that *somebody* still has to pay for "Free Culture". Ultimately, who *does* pay for "Free Culture"? Are these big corporations like Sony, or the littler ones like LL, supposed to just keep endlessly paying? Why? As for the stuff about "role-playing the entrepreneur" this is almost at the level of Jeff Brown saying that if Uri's a newspaper editor, Jeff is a railroad tycoon. Well, Uri's a virtual editor at least, and that acquires reality, and Jeff, being a game dev guy, is kinda like the modern-day equivalent of a railroad tycoon anyway. Cory's remarks reveal the basic attitude toward the feebs and choads (his words about people that *don't* hire who *don't* pass muster at the recruiting station) that are their customers. There's a kind of thinly-veiled but deep-seated scorn for people who make a living out of a game, or try to make a living, despite all the game's vicissitudes, and don't, say, have a prestigious Naval background and a high-paying and high-profile job as a game dev. Uri, you’d be more of an expert on Linden mythology than me, but I didn’t understand it to be a claim of LL’s that they thought up that IP idea themselves. When Lessig was in SL lecturing recently, Philip said forthrightly that it was his idea from the podium. And the hype preceding the event made it clear it was his idea.

(What I STILL don’t get, though, and I wish someone would clear it up for me, is how Lessig can seemingly be against big corporations holding copyrights and trying to protect their property rights, and against copyright for old dead white guys especially which he feels is held on to “for too long”, but then be for copyright for leaner corporations (little things on the Internet especially if they have kewl names — at what point would then LL cross the line into being “evil” and “big” for Lessig?), and copyrights for live brown boys if they remix stuff from everybody else in Brazil, or live anybody in SL if they poach stuff off the Internet by right-clicking, then slap a “copyright” on it in SL, or use the evil corporation’s software to make their stuff. I’m just not following this with the politically-correct rose-tinted opticals I guess.)

There’s been a ton of “Free Culture” events and hype from Hamlet Linden SL, with everybody in the group constantly being flogged to “vote” for officers and events, and to turn out and donate money to various venues for “Free Culture”. I’m gathering that *somebody* still has to pay for “Free Culture”. Ultimately, who *does* pay for “Free Culture”? Are these big corporations like Sony, or the littler ones like LL, supposed to just keep endlessly paying? Why?

As for the stuff about “role-playing the entrepreneur” this is almost at the level of Jeff Brown saying that if Uri’s a newspaper editor, Jeff is a railroad tycoon. Well, Uri’s a virtual editor at least, and that acquires reality, and Jeff, being a game dev guy, is kinda like the modern-day equivalent of a railroad tycoon anyway.

Cory’s remarks reveal the basic attitude toward the feebs and choads (his words about people that *don’t* hire who *don’t* pass muster at the recruiting station) that are their customers. There’s a kind of thinly-veiled but deep-seated scorn for people who make a living out of a game, or try to make a living, despite all the game’s vicissitudes, and don’t, say, have a prestigious Naval background and a high-paying and high-profile job as a game dev.

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