Young Japanese women might spot a new hairstyle or a new dress in a glossy fashion magazine and want to know what their friends think,so they take a quick snap with their mobile phone camera and send everybody a picture.But the Japanese Magazine Publishers Association says the practice is “information theft” and it wants it stopped.
Digital “Shoplifting”?
- June 30th, 2003
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by Jim_Downing
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Comments
@ 08:10
I think this is the begining of something huge. Content capturing mechanisms are becoming more and more common. The response will be to “shrink wrap” all content and suffer lost sales or keep content open and develp new ways to make paying for content compelling. It’s the same problem music and more recently movies are facing. Perhaps the magazine should go with the flow and send out photos to readers and encourage the practice in an effort to build buzz for the print version of the magazine.
@ 00:29
It’s a new species of freeriders : CONCEPT THIEVES !!!!
Absolutely ridiculous