Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet

Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet
Matéria de Steve Lohr no New York Times sentencia a derrota da indústria da música (como a conhecemos) pelo simples ato de observar e ouvir especialistas (W3C, David Bowie, Harvard Law School, MIT etc) e os fatos (Linux, Kazaa, OpenCourseWare, etc). Três trechos:

“The cultural and technical principle embedded in today’s Internet is that it is neutral in the sense that the people who use it have the power to determine its use, not corporations or the network operators,” said Jonathan Zittrain, a co-director of the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. “The plan for the Internet was to have no plan.”

“I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing,” Mr. Bowie said in an interview last year. The future of the music industry, he suggests, is that songs are essentially advertisements and artists will have to make a living by performing on tour.

“With music file sharing, you have a cultural norm that is being established by what is technologically possible,” said Daniel Weitzner, a director at the World Wide Web Consortium. “That is very hard to resist.”