http://mturro.com/2006/12/21/exploitation-my-ass/ print | culture | digital | media Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:16:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://mturro.com/2006/12/21/exploitation-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-50 robg Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:18:45 +0000 http://mturro.com/?p=56#comment-50 I agree with you that they are providing a cool cultural site for people to interact with each other, you can't deny that, but I also understand the other side because it's not those people's fault that they are paranoid about big corporation exploitation. You see it everywhere you turn, to not see it would be akin to walking around with blinders and earplugs. To say that MySpace is exploiting people by not paying them for their content would be ludicrous, like you say, but the people you mention, their concerns seem founded when you consider that MySpace is absolutely databasing, cataloging, and doing every market research technique in the books with everyone's MySpace interactions. I agree with you that they are providing a cool cultural site for people to interact with each other, you can’t deny that, but I also understand the other side because it’s not those people’s fault that they are paranoid about big corporation exploitation. You see it everywhere you turn, to not see it would be akin to walking around with blinders and earplugs.
To say that MySpace is exploiting people by not paying them for their content would be ludicrous, like you say, but the people you mention, their concerns seem founded when you consider that MySpace is absolutely databasing, cataloging, and doing every market research technique in the books with everyone’s MySpace interactions.

]]> http://mturro.com/2006/12/21/exploitation-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-336 robg Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:18:45 +0000 http://mturro.com/?p=56#comment-336 I agree with you that they are providing a cool cultural site for people to interact with each other, you can't deny that, but I also understand the other side because it's not those people's fault that they are paranoid about big corporation exploitation. You see it everywhere you turn, to not see it would be akin to walking around with blinders and earplugs.<br>To say that MySpace is exploiting people by not paying them for their content would be ludicrous, like you say, but the people you mention, their concerns seem founded when you consider that MySpace is absolutely databasing, cataloging, and doing every market research technique in the books with everyone's MySpace interactions. I agree with you that they are providing a cool cultural site for people to interact with each other, you can't deny that, but I also understand the other side because it's not those people's fault that they are paranoid about big corporation exploitation. You see it everywhere you turn, to not see it would be akin to walking around with blinders and earplugs.
To say that MySpace is exploiting people by not paying them for their content would be ludicrous, like you say, but the people you mention, their concerns seem founded when you consider that MySpace is absolutely databasing, cataloging, and doing every market research technique in the books with everyone's MySpace interactions.

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