Generation L Innovates the Wisdom of Mobs

Chris Castle talks about the symbioses of the mob mentality and the tech sector with regard to music piracy.

From Music-Technology-Policy Blog:

So when the mob decides to take away copyright, it’s not only the case that they can do it because they are huge in number and their anonymity is—interestingly—defended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the hardware manufacturers and others in the anti-copyright crowd whose funding is harder to determine.

It’s also the case that the mob--call them Lessig's mob--in fact believes they are morally right to do so, that the ability of the mob to rise up and violate property laws en masse is not only defendable but is in fact transcendently correct.

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