Comments on: JZ on the iPad http://futureoftheinternet.org/jz-on-the-ipad Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Mon, 07 May 2012 17:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: owen http://futureoftheinternet.org/jz-on-the-ipad/comment-page-1#comment-17661 owen Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:23:25 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=1166#comment-17661 this is a far reaching problem, that I can't even comprehend in my own brain space and nobody seems to see what i'm saying. But i feel its just like video games. Nothing is yours anymore, everything is rented. I buy this beautiful video game but all I can do is look at it. I can't make wallpapers or use the assets in a mashup/remix game. I can't rip the audio and make ring tones or a music cd/video with cuts of music or video in the game. All its potential just sits there on the disk. I know that its all optimised and conpressed to improve performance, copyrighted, blah, blah blah but a little creative spark in me dies everytime I buy something. I hope in the future i get a computer fast enough to analyse and extract everything useful out of the things i buy. I'd tired of having to hack EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING being retarded by design. this is a far reaching problem, that I can’t even comprehend in my own brain space and nobody seems to see what i’m saying. But i feel its just like video games. Nothing is yours anymore, everything is rented. I buy this beautiful video game but all I can do is look at it. I can’t make wallpapers or use the assets in a mashup/remix game. I can’t rip the audio and make ring tones or a music cd/video with cuts of music or video in the game. All its potential just sits there on the disk. I know that its all optimised and conpressed to improve performance, copyrighted, blah, blah blah but a little creative spark in me dies everytime I buy something.

I hope in the future i get a computer fast enough to analyse and extract everything useful out of the things i buy. I’d tired of having to hack EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING being retarded by design.

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