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But It Is As Silly To Think About Peer-to-peer As Applying Just To Music As It Would Have Been To Think About The Internet As Applying Just To Pornography. Whatever The Initial Use Of The Technology, It Has Nothing To Do With The Potential Of The Architecture To Serve Many Other Extremely Important Functions.

Politics Is That Rare Sport Where The Amateur Contest Is Actually More Interesting Than The Professional.

We Are A Cut-and-paste Culture. The Aim Of The Protectionists Is To Argue That A Cut-and-paste Culture Is Criminal. Well, It's Only Criminal If There's Nothing Out There That You Can Freely Cut And Paste. If We Increasingly Mark Material As Available For These Non-commercial Uses, Then People Will Have The Opportunity To See Its Importance.

Some Blame The Drug Companies. I Don't. They Are Corporations. Their Managers Are Ordered By Law To Make Money For The Corporation. They Push A Certain Patent Policy Not Because Of Ideals,but Because It Is The Policy That Makes Them The Most Money. And It Only Makes Them The Most Money Because Of A Certain Corruption Within Our Political System-a Corruption The Drug Companies Are Certainly Not Responsible For. The Corruption Is Our Own Politicians' Failure Of Integrity.

When You Think About A Presidential Candidate Spending All Of His Or Her Time Talking To That Tiny, Tiny Fraction Of Us Who Have The Capacity To Fund Political Elections, It's Obvious Why The Perspective Of Government Is Skewed Relative To What Most Americans Care About.