grateful...
John Perry Barlow
formerly of
the Grateful Dead
but now with the
EFF in an
interview
with
MPAA
monkey Dan Glickman. I must admit some of Glickman's points
seem valid enough but his refusal to see the big picture is
annoying. The best part by far from Barlow....
"The good news is that you guys have managed to buy
every major legislative body in the planet, but you know the
problem is, the bad news is that you're up against a dedicated foe
that is younger and smarter than you are and will be alive when you
are dead, and has historical forces on its side, and is using its
technological acumen very adeptly to ward off all of your efforts
of control and you're gonna lose that one. I mean you're fifty-five
years old and these kids are seventeen and they're just smarter
than you are. So you're gonna lose that one. But the good news is
you guys are mean sons of bitches and you've been figuring out ways
to rip off audiences and artists for centuries really, and all you
gotta do is get outta bed a little earlier in the morning for a
spell and you'll find new ways of doing this. I have every faith in
you and you should give yourselves a little credit, instead of
howling that you're going to be victimized. It's not like you to be
victimized."
Sadly the video is in
Realplayer
format and all I could do was listen to the .ram file with mplayer.
Thanks BBC!
