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You are hereCopyrightNetflix' UneconomicsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2011-09-06 11:58Netflix' continues to exhibit serious difficulties grasping basic economics, competition and value. First, Netflix is lowering its value to customers.
Second, Netflix is shifting its costs to its customers.
Third, Netflix is chasing away the premium content its subscribers demand. My Forbes Op-Ed: "Google Asserts Property Rights Are Anti-Competitive"Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2011-08-12 17:39To understand how Google is deceptively misdirecting attention away from their own ignominious record of serial property infringement by loudly accusing its competitors of being anti-competitive for enforcing their patent rights, see my new Forbes op-ed: "Google Asserts Property Rights Are Anti-Competitive." This is important because:
Few have connected the dots of how Google's serial mass infringement of competitors' property has been integral to Google's rapid monopolization of the search business and its strategy to rapidly extend that search business market power in most every direction. Simply, no one can compete with unabashed property infringers. Find the op-ed here. FreePress McChesney's Latest Collectivist Manifesto -- Radical Fringe Series Part ISubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2011-06-23 18:51FreePress co-founder and collectivist ideologue, Robert McChesney, wrote his latest Internet manifesto: "The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism," in the Monthly Review - An Independent Socialist Magazine." McChesney's collectivist and elitist manifesto warrants attention because it is widely disseminated to: Google's Pirate Side -- My "Daily Caller" Op-ed on DOJ's Criminal Probe of GoogleSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2011-06-06 17:04My new op-ed, "Google's Pirate Side" in the Daily Caller, about the Department of Justice's reported criminal investigation of Google's longstanding promotion of rogue pharmacy sales, despite repeated warnings from law enforcement, tells the story of how this Google scofflaw behavior is consistent with Google's pirate escapades in other areas.
Google's serial disrespect for people, privacy, property, and the rule of law are core themes of my new book: Search & Destroy Why You Can't Trust Google Inc.
My Forbes Op-ed on Google's Disregard for the LawSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2011-05-13 16:08My new Forbes' op-ed: Google Disregards the Law, tells the sordid story behind today's story of Google apparently agreeing to settle a criminal investigation with the Department of Justice for ~$500m for promoting and accepting advertising from illegal online pharmacies.
Announcing My New Book: Search & Destroy Why You Can't Trust Google Inc.Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2011-05-10 11:57I've long thought there was a big untold story about Google, essentially a book all about Google, but told from a user's perspective, rather than the well-worn path of Google books told largely from Google's own paternal perspective.
Given that Google is the most ubiquitous, powerful and disruptive company in the world, it seemed logical to me that users, and people affected by Google, had a lot of important and fundamental questions about Google that no book had ever tried to answer in a straightforward and well-defended manner. Google's "Copyright School" Tacitly Admits Liability in Viacom vs YouTube CaseSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2011-04-14 12:35Ironically Google's new "Copyright School" to better educate YouTube users of copyright law and responsibilities, slides Google down the slippery slope of tacitly admitting liability for copyright infringement in Viacom's billion dollar infringement suit against Google-YouTube. (See Politico's story.) There are two big takeaways from Google's new "Copyright School." First, Google continues to basically blame users for copyright infringement while absolving itself of mass facilitation of copyright infringement. The big open question here is does Google have a "copyright school" for its YouTube engineers/employees and have any of them attended it?
Second, why didn't Google do this shortly after it bought YouTube over three years ago? Key Questions for Google's New CEO Larry PageSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2011-04-01 18:51When the world's most powerful company gets a new CEO for the first time in a decade, everyone naturally has a lot of questions.
Priorities: Is Google Android a Counterfeit Operating System?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2011-03-18 14:35Three completely different entities, coming from three very different perspectives/motivations, are all making the same charge against Google: that Google forged their work and stole/misused their property in creating its world-leading Android mobile operating system.
Mobile Content: Google's Commons vs. Apple's MarketSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2011-02-17 11:08Mobile content producers do not have a truly competitive choice between Google's 10% fee One Pass service and Apple's 30% fee subscription service, as much as they have a value system choice between Google's Internet commons model and Apple's property-rights-driven market.
As much as Google tries to fool Little Red Riding Hood content owners that their Grandma always had such big eyes and big teeth, most mobile content providers will spot the Google commons wolf in disguise.
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