The transcript of the TED talk mentions articles in Cell.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

It can refer to what Eric S. Raymond referred to as the "bazaar" model, or it can refer to a license that grants rights to the public analogous to those listed in the DFSG or FSF definition of free software. I see hints of bazaar in the transcript of the TED talk:

dissatisfied with the performance and quality of these medicines, I went back to school in chemistry with the idea that perhaps by learning the trade of discovery chemistry and approaching it in the context of this brave new world of the open-source, the crowd-source, the collaborative network that we have access to within academia, that we might more quickly bring powerful and targeted therapies to our patients.

And here I see the spirit of publishing a discovery instead of locking it up behind secrecy and exclusive rights:

We published a paper that described this finding at the earliest prototype stage. We gave the world the chemical identity of this molecule, typically a secret in our discipline. We told people exactly how to make it.

This leads up to the benefits of bazaar and publication:

the science that's coming back from all of these laboratories about the use of this molecule has provided us insights that we might not have had on our own. Leukemia cells treated with this compound turn into normal white blood cells.

And finally, a direct answer to your question as to what is the source code of a molecule:

This string of letters and numbers and symbols and parentheses that can be texted, I suppose, or [microblogged] worldwide, is the chemical identity of our pro compound.

I see how that would help people who already subscribe to cellular Internet for some other reason, but it doesn't appear to help the use case I described. In the United States, where YouTube and Slashdot are headquartered, some pay-as-you-go cellular Internet providers work on a "pay only on the days you use it" basis: $2 for the first second and $0 for the rest of the day.

It would cost even more to move to the UK than to get Internet on the bus in the US.

Whether something requires payment and whether it requires a continuous connection to the Internet are orthogonal. I want to be able to pay for a rental, download the encrypted video, and watch it offline sometime in the next 24 hours. How do these video publishers expect people to use their product on airplanes?

What's the difference between ESPN getting $100 a year from a YouTube subscriber and ESPN getting $100 a year from a Dish or Comcast subscriber?

Then why does copyright continue for 70 years after "the creators of content" have ceased to exist?

Someone who moves in 20 years later wouldn't have to pay the original builders again and certainly wouldn't have to pay a recurring royalty to the original builders.

That's difficult if all grocery stores in the area have licensed the a-holes' music to play over the speaker system.

Same here. Someone who connects a cable to my router has shown intent to break in, as does someone who breaks WEP.

How does Apple's donation to earnings ratio compare to that of, say, The Walt Disney Company or ExxonMobil?

If someone had a design patent on brake on the left and accelerator on the right, would that be standard-essential? Or what about a design patent on red light means stop, green light means go?

Does running a red light when the vehicle sensor under the road is defective count as civil disobedience?

Wikipedia says 3GP, 3G2, and MP4 are essentially the same thing as MOV (the ISO base media file format), and video can be ASP or AVC. Did you try just renaming it to .mov or .mp4? Or do you need to transcode because your camera records ASP and browsers expect AVC?

Or you could buy tickets to a Blue Jackets game and travel to the stadium to watch it in person.

The argument is that it would serve the public to replace the middleman that that geodiscriminates with the middleman that does not.

Given two works A and B, it's possible for the plots and themes of A to be more original than those of B even if the characters of B are more original than those of A. Or are you using "original" in strictly a copyright law sense?

That's what I currently do. But my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop will eventually break. With affordable 10" laptops having reached end of manufacturing at the end of last year, doing constructive work on a device that fits on a crowded bus has become far more expensive.