If we asked Cory, he might say copyright is making unrealistic demands of reality. And when you do that, reality won’t likely oblige.
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Your grandchildren will turn to you and say “Tell me again, Grandpa, about when it was hard to copy things in 2012, when you couldn’t get a drive the size of your fingernail that could hold every song ever recorded, every movie ever made, every word ever spoken, every picture ever taken, everything, and transfer it in such a short period of time you didn’t even notice it was doing it." [/quote]
See the shape of the future and roll with it. You can only hope to have even a chance at influencing it if you have an accurate enough model of reality in your head. Ubiquitous computing, high bandwidth everywhere, plus cheap and bottomless storage is an epic game-changer that’s only just begun to play out. Our system of ethics will inevitably evolve to adapt to all these new dynamics dominating our reality, sooner or later. Although I guess the longer we leave it, the more likely it’ll be a plaintive wish gazed out from behind bars, under a boot.
