Quote of the Day | 0116
The copyright wars are just the beta version of a long coming war on computation. The entertainment industry is just the first belligerents to take up arms, and we tend to think of them as particularly successful. After all, here is SOPA, trembling on the verge of passage, ready to break the Internet on a fundamental level— all in the name of preserving Top 40 music, reality TV shows, and Ashton Kutcher movies.
But the reality is that copyright legislation gets as far as it does precisely because it’s not taken seriously by politicians.
Cory Doctorow, ‘Lockdown; The coming war on general-purpose computing’
[x]#9712 fan maandag 16 januari 2012 @ 11:04:14
