John Tierney has a nice overview and essay on Jaron Lanier's realization that the open community culture of the internet has stymied progress in many ways and that copyright owners do suffer from illegal pirating much more than the free information folks thought . . . The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/science/12tier.html . . . worth the full read, so go ye forth and read in full.
The note on how it's interesting how music has changed in the post-digital age. Most of the really big acts started before the open downloading and open box digital culture and now so much of music is really mashups of previous work instead of truly original material . . . some of the mashups may be interesting but they are still highly derivative.
All the best,
Brian
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