The new "copyspeak"
I find it just a touch frustrating that the argument always goes like this:
1. technology changed everything.
2. media companies must adapt to that technology.
3. end of story.
It never seems to include the obvious -- namely, that *technology* might begin to offer the solution...which, of course, puts us back at DRM systems and digital id.
Then again, admitting that technology might solve the dilemma means that we might change the ability to just download at will....and what fun would that be?
Technology is not a force that drives inexorably toward unfettered freedom and anarchy....it is a force that opens doorways to human interaction, or the control of it...
Posted by ejnorlin at September 26, 2002 06:39 AM