My pal John Perry Barlow — Grateful Dead lyricist, copyfighter, and co-founder of EFF — conducted an electronic debate with ex-congressman Dan Glickman, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America on the BBC's website. The results are a hoot.
These are aging industries run by aging men, and they're up against 17-year-olds who have turned themselves into electronic Hezbollah because they resent the content industry for its proprietary practices. And I don't have a question about who's going to win that one eventually.
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
(Thanks, Chris!)
