Big Entertainment Wants to Party Like It's 1996

A very important piece of writing that highlights the misguided and dangereous path copyright multinational companies ate attempting

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In 2009, the world is populated by people who no longer believe that “Thou shalt sell media on plastic discs forever” came down off the mountain on two stone tablets. It’s populated by people who find the spectacle of companies suing their own customers by the thousands indefensible. It’s populated by activists who’ve figured out that the Internet is worth saving and that the entertainment industry is prepared to destroy it.

And the entertainment industry hasn’t figured that out, and that’s why they’re doomed.