Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
For all excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
--Benedict Spinoza
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to.death.--Steven Pressfield
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.--Beverly Sills
Stop whining.--Cathy Seipp
April 10, 2009
Copyright and Terrorism
Does the content industry's government-abetted predatory behavior facilitate terrorism? A couple of comments to that effect are plausible on their face. By creating a mass market for circumventions of "intellectual property", the industry may have stimulated development of evasive technologies that the bad guys would not have invented on their own. Mass circumventions have enabled the few actual villains to hide like needles in a haystack.
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