Calling King Canute
Sunday night is always catch-up night and this week was
improved as Collateral was on Film4.
I was reading this TechCrunch
piece on "how to save newspapers", or rather, "how not to"
which appears to be a suggestion to legislate against linking to
copyrighted material. Awesome idea there. Not quite the rethinking that Wesch suggested in that
video.
It's interesting because the newspaper industry does
have some prior material to work with: the success, or lack thereof, the music
industry has driven through similar stances. They saw this sort of
thing coming. Their choice was to defend vigorously (i.e. attack) and see
off these new models on the basis of theft - the issue at hand - but sort
of missed that there would be a need to respond to the overall concept at some
point Real Soon Now.
Just as I was snorting at the futility of this, I heard
Vincent saying:
Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, sh*t happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.
Amen.
