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They haven't lost the social fight; it hasn't even started. The average person has yet to even think to question bog-standard intellectual property practices; t
by misuba 18y ago
They haven't lost the social fight; it hasn't even started. The average person has yet to even think to question bog-standard intellectual property practices; that Overton window has a long ways to move yet.
I'm not hopeful. Lessig, for one, is so bad at speaking to the uninitiated about these issues that he lost a debate with Stephen Colbert, who was trying to _make fun_ of the opposing position.
- jerf 18y agoThey've lost the leading edge already... and how do they propose to roll even that back? "No, that free stuff which you can freely examine and come to your own conclusions about sucks because we say so, come spend $20 on thirty minutes of generic music again?" They've lost because there's just no way to dress this up in a way that can get past the cynical 21st century consumer.
- cabalamat 18y ago> The average person has yet to even think to question bog-standard intellectual property practices I'm not sure that's true. Many of my friends aren't computer geeks or copyfighters, but most of them share music and movies and use P2P applications. For many people the concept of recorded music as something you buy just doesn't exist.