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I hate to say it, but it's hard to read articles about him any more. I get so pissed off that it becomes counterproductive.

MBCook 12y ago
It's nice this exists but I wonder if it's just preaching to the choir. The issues seem abstract and esoteric enough that I doubt the documentary will draw in many people who weren't already vaguely familiar with the subject. It's not something that's going to be easy for people to understand and relate to like Supersize Me. Personally I'm in the same bucket as you. I read plenty about it when it was happening, I'm not sure that anything I'd learn would be worth the time and frustration of re-hearing a story I already know.
- peterwiese 12y ago
  i thought the same. then i watched it. it's really well-made and you learn much more about aaron than by the media coverage it received way back when. it's on youtube, so you don't even have to pay/torrent/whatever it.
pixelmonkey 12y ago
Lawrence Lessig, who is featured in this documentary, recently completed his ambitious $5M fundraising for the MayDay PAC on July 4. When they hit this fundraising goal, he tweeted, "That's it. We did it. For US. For @aaronsw. Tears, and sleep, and endless thanks. #MayDayPAC" (https://twitter.com/lessig/status/485233905545400321 https://twitter.com/lessig/status/485233905545400321). "For @aaronsw." Lessig says in the documentary that it was a conversation with @aaronsw a few years back that convinced him to move on from issues of copyright and into "root issues" in politics, like campaign finance and corruption. MayDay may not succeed, but it has already raised $5M and Lessig has a good track record for achieving change, so one must assume something positive will come out of it. Though I identify with your anger, I think you can channel it positively. As RFK said, "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
- jacobolus 12y ago
  > Lessig has a good track record for achieving change Examples?
  - jhart3333 12y ago
    Really? You're a seasoned follower of Hacker News and you don't know who Lawrence Lessig is and what he's done?
  - wcarss 12y ago
    One significant work was the founding of the Creative Commons in 2001, whose licenses provide an alternative to traditional "all right reserved" copyright schemes, now applied to hundreds of millions of works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

MBCook 12y ago

It's nice this exists but I wonder if it's just preaching to the choir. The issues seem abstract and esoteric enough that I doubt the documentary will draw in many people who weren't already vaguely familiar with the subject. It's not something that's going to be easy for people to understand and relate to like Supersize Me. Personally I'm in the same bucket as you. I read plenty about it when it was happening, I'm not sure that anything I'd learn would be worth the time and frustration of re-hearing a story I already know.

peterwiese 12y ago
i thought the same. then i watched it. it's really well-made and you learn much more about aaron than by the media coverage it received way back when. it's on youtube, so you don't even have to pay/torrent/whatever it.

pixelmonkey 12y ago

Lawrence Lessig, who is featured in this documentary, recently completed his ambitious $5M fundraising for the MayDay PAC on July 4. When they hit this fundraising goal, he tweeted, "That's it. We did it. For US. For @aaronsw. Tears, and sleep, and endless thanks. #MayDayPAC" (https://twitter.com/lessig/status/485233905545400321 https://twitter.com/lessig/status/485233905545400321). "For @aaronsw." Lessig says in the documentary that it was a conversation with @aaronsw a few years back that convinced him to move on from issues of copyright and into "root issues" in politics, like campaign finance and corruption. MayDay may not succeed, but it has already raised $5M and Lessig has a good track record for achieving change, so one must assume something positive will come out of it. Though I identify with your anger, I think you can channel it positively. As RFK said, "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

jacobolus 12y ago
> Lessig has a good track record for achieving change Examples?
- jhart3333 12y ago
  Really? You're a seasoned follower of Hacker News and you don't know who Lawrence Lessig is and what he's done?
- wcarss 12y ago
  One significant work was the founding of the Creative Commons in 2001, whose licenses provide an alternative to traditional "all right reserved" copyright schemes, now applied to hundreds of millions of works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/