January 2012
3 posts
Making ethics less illegal
Bloomberg:
“Benefit Corporations,” a new legal structure that gives directors legal cover to consider social and environmental missions over financial returns
On one side, it’s depressing that this has to be a separate status, that we can’t work out how to get companies operations to include the costs they currently externalize onto society and future generations. On the other...
Life as a VCR repairman in 2012
Steven Soderberg, quoted in Moviegoer:
A lot of people who think, “It’s just a double click—what difference does it make?” are going to find that out when they try to go into a field in which they are creating stuff and their survival depends on people buying their stuff. They’re going to have a moment of, “Oh, s—t. The reason I don’t have a career is because people are doing what I was doing...
One digital rights locker please
The Akamai for UltraViolet product is designed to connect with the digital rights locker and offer up storage, security and delivery of UltraViolet-enabled digital assets. The idea is to create a common reference point that studios and retailers can point to whenever a consumer tries to access an UltraViolet title.
Just in case you were wondering why the movie and TV industry is fucked - this...