Grand Theft Lazlow - How Hacking is Both the Death and Future of Traditional and Interactive Publishing, Journalism, and the Media

Presented at The Next HOPE (2010), July 17, 2010, noon (60 minutes)

Writer, producer and director Lazlow, who has worked on titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, discusses how the war for net neutrality will be lost. This talk will touch on how the battle between content creators and consumers is threatening journalism and democracy, and discuss the threats that both small publishers like 2600 Magazine and large interactive companies face in an online media landscape that expects everything for free.

Presenters:

• Lazlow
  Lazlow is a writer/director/producer who has worked in radio, TV, and video games. His first HOPE conference was Beyond HOPE in 1997. As a syndicated tech journalist, he was heard on over 100 radio stations worldwide on The Technofile, which was inducted into the Museum of Television and Radio. As a print journalist, he was a contributing writer to several publications including Playboy. Currently he works for Rockstar Games on multiple titles, including the Grand Theft Auto series as well as this year’s Red Dead Redemption. Between game deadlines, he hosts The Lazlow Show, which began on K-Rock New York, moved to XM Satellite Radio, and can now be heard at http://www.lazlow.com.

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Next Hope (2010)/The Next HOPE (2010) - Grand Theft Lazlow - How Hacking is Both the Death and Future of the Media.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Next Hope (2010)/The Next HOPE (2010) - Grand Theft Lazlow - How Hacking is Both the Death and Future of the Media.mp4

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• The Last HOPE (2008) / Grand Theft Lazlow - Hacking the Media by Laughing at Them