Originally Posted by Moejoe
No, it's over. You're not on the side of the angels with this one, ethically, morally or rationally. Read FREE by Chris Anderson, look at the essays of Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow, watch the talks by Eben Moglen, take a walk on the wild side at a torrent site or scene blog. Your way of thinking is dead. Game over. It was fun having this silly little debate with you and the other head-in-the-sanders, but you lost ten years ago. You lost when the first text file was sent across a BBS. You lost when Fraunhoffer invented the MP3 algorithim. You lost when DVDJon broke the CSS encryption on commercial DVD's. You lost because nobody is listening to what you have to say on the greater web. You lost because society has changed and is no longer in step with you and your ideas.
Moan, whail, pound your chest and support all the fascist laws you like, but it's over. There's no going back. Now every creator has a choice; accept the realities of the digital age, or consign themselves to the scrapheap of the fading analog reality.
Good luck trying to sell anything on the web when you're calling your audience thieves  |