remarkable
Doc Searls brings up
my #1 pet peeve:
It's remarkable to me that lots of people who care deeply about free speech and free enterprise -- hard core libertarians, dynamists, objectivists and other enemies of Big Government and Big Regulation -- would rather carp about yet another left-wing hypocrisy in a Times op-ed piece than take notice of the most big-gov, big-reg, big-tax campaign to destroy a marketplace in recent memory. And on the Net, no less, where hundreds of these people blog every day.
I think his criticism of the
net is a little harsh --
Instapundit [search on RIAA or MPAA or CARP or Hollings] is pretty on top of this issue, and -- if anything -- anti-Hollywood sentiment seems more concentrated on the net. It's my
in-real-life anti-government colleagues, with their
Hank-Rearden-inspired "corporations can do no wrong" attitude, who are really off the ball.
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And, if your view of the entertainment industry isn't cynical enough, read the detailed story of
how they fabricate new musical acts. It's all about the "poor, starving artists" indeed!