> All of which is to say, that I think ownership of words and ideas - like
> ownership of music and film - is likely to go through a major upheaval in
> the next 5 -25 years, and I'm not convinced at all that it's such a bad
> thing.
For sure, I believe that the current spate of lawsuits from the RIAA [see
also "the bullet to the foot heard round the world"] are the last desparate
thrashing movements of a creature that realizes that it'll soon become
extinct because it hasn't learned to adapt. But that's another discussion
that I'd love to get involved with in another thread.
--
keg
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Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd
DeWitt, NY 13214
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