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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The overview suggests the usual mantra: That times have changed, so our notions of copyright (and patent) law must change with it... but without a detail of exactly how things have changed at any but a superficial level, or exactly what changes will accommodate the New Order.
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I'm currently on the second chapter of his previous work (
The Nature of the Book, which also covers the issue of piracy, though in more specific senses) and there's a
lot of detail on how things have changed at a very deep level.
Johns is a historian, not a futurist, and there's none of the wild-eyed Brave New World digital hype that is so tedious.