Hello, friend. I feel a bit embarrassed – you’ve walked into the middle of a conversation here. No, please don’t go. It would mean a lot to me if you stayed and participated. I’m eager to hear what you think.
However, before you do that, there’s a lot of backstory that you should probably wade through. I’m not trying to give you homework or anything – all I’m suggesting is that you’ll understand this post a little better if you read this, this, and this first. If you don’t want to, …

Wow, what an exciting day! Mark at Ditchwalk posted a great entry furthering the discussion we’ve been having about piracy and copyright. With his support, I feel like the discussion is going somewhere. In this post I want to directly respond to what he wrote, so please read his post first. Once you’ve done that, let’s talk:
Both of Mark’s scenarios that don’t involve the taking of something from someone else, but still involve physical piracy (free newspaper and concert), stem from the same given: content creators have a right to …

When Mark Barrett of Ditchwalk recently mentioned that he’d been engaged in a conversation that declared copyright antiquated, he linked to my post about piracy. I was flattered, because I respect Mark’s posts on his site and his comments here, but a little flustered, because he saw what I was trying to do with my arguments about copyright before I did. And I wrote them. My post about piracy IS trying to hold as a central thesis that copyright is an outdated notion. Thanks, Mark, for pointing that out to …