We Do Need Reminding
John Perry Barlow on the Crime of Sharing:
"We are born savage and self-centered, and then, unless we move to Hollywood, we get over it. We become civilized. We enter a state in which we understand that sharing is good.
And just as sharing makes us civilized, it's sharing that makes civilization...
I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That's why I'm stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate, become criminal acts. For instance, lending a book to a friend is still all right, but letting him read the same book electronically is now a theft."
Forgive me for coming back to this, but barely a murmur of protest seems to mark the onward march of legislation friendly to a handful of media corporations, and hostile to everyone else. However, I have little faith that it's worth making a fuss, or that anything will turn out any different. (via Tomalak's Realm)
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