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On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 02:55 PM, Kevin Atkinson wrote: >> >> I think music is an important area in which to spread the world and >> finght the battles-- as well as the other arts (visual, literary, >> cinematic...) independent musicians, young artists... > > Could you elaborate some? > The authors and the artists; the publishers in the new medium; These are groups of people who have the most at stake. Rather, these are the roles in which popular control (or non-control) of the net is crucial-- and we all visit those roles from time to time (or ought to, if you don't). The net is a place where independent music, original writing and art, and free software projects thrive, because of the ability for the users to publish-- it is made out of the contributions of the users, not some elite content industry (as in television, and in some ways film and print). This is the whole point of the net, IMO. Anyway, it is from this perspective that the 'paradigm shift' is *experienced*, not observed. This makes it real, important and urgent. Yeah, the Lessig interview has some really good stuff in it... it touches on so many of the crucial aspects of net use, and policy that we should really be concerned about. I just finished reading the new edition of Vernor Vinge's "True Names", which along with the original piece of that name and author, includes a whole bunch of essays, about crypto, VR, AI, etc. (including RMS's "Right to Read" mentioned earlier). I'd recommend it, just because of the topics that are touched on are important, though I would have enjoyed a bit more depth, or (especially) more specific references to other writing to look into. But pretty good stuff in general-- and quite possibly a a good book to loan to a "layman" friend who might be interested in privacy, crypto, etc. rh - -- Reed Hedges reed at zerohour.net http://zerohour.net/~reed Virtual Object System -- Internet Virtual Reality: http://www.interreality.org The owls are not what they seem. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjw6dZkACgkQ43zrjhPEi78FggCfTAdmB9E40yXQlgo0rQtR3qc+ ew8An1EmVWvtX9cwFfOKXiGlkvcAQ/5u =aLFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
