Peter Kafka

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Apple Streaming iPad Event on Web, iOS, Apple TV

You don’t have to go to San Jose to see Apple’s product launch today, as long as you have Apple hardware and a broadband connection: The company is streaming the event on its Web site (via Safari only), on iOS devices, and on Apple TV. And if you like text and pictures, AllThingsD will have that, too, beginning around 12:30 pm ET.

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work