What I learned at imeem re:the music industry is that problems with "content industry" have nothing to do with technology, and have everything to do with social

What I learned at imeem re:the music industry is that problems with "content industry" have nothing to do with technology, and have everything to do with social/political/regulatory issues. The music industry behaves the way they do because they have a financial incentive to do so. I think that attempting to solve the fundamental financial incentives of the operators of our core social communications infrastructure is as important as those other announcements. Rather than just sit on the sidelines and complain about the fact that the companies controlling the building blocks of the social web are erratic and financially incentivized to screw over their entire user+developer ecosystem (or die), I am going to try to do something about it. Even if I fail, I will be proud that I put my money where my mouth is, and did everything within my power to do fix something I see as a HUGE problem, a problem that affects a lot more things than some would appear to believe.