It continues to amaze me how that once you do something one way for a few years (or a few decades) how established businesses are willing to fight tooth and nai

It continues to amaze me how that once you do something one way for a few years (or a few decades) how established businesses are willing to fight tooth and nail to keep doing it that way even if it stops making any sense to the consumer to do so. We have this same fight with RIAA, and with IP in general. Once a business model gets established, it's the dickens trying to change course. This is what concerns me most about the internet: when we were putting this all together, it was just a bunch of hacks out there pressing buttons, seeing which ones would work. Web pages are a kind of location, like a street address? Okay, let's run with that. Search is a way to monitor user intent? Okay, that works. Facebook should be the new version of the yellowpages? Yeah, that's the ticket. Watching all of this happen, I've been amused, concerned, and finally blasé. I mean if Facebook doesn't work as a universal phonebook, or if it starts thinking it owns the net, who cares? Surely somebody else will come along eventually. But it concerns me that the patterns we've set up over the last ten years or so are going to be just as hard, if not harder to overcome than these decades-established ones. Everybody loves riding the rocketship up, and milking the cash cow. It's a completely different picture when technology starts making your model obsolete. He has to know how weak his cards are. My money says they're bluffing. This is a cry for support, not a real option.