<blockquote>Spoo is not alone in observing that effective lobbying and public relations by powerful interest groups like the RIAA, MPAA, and AAP are moving public understanding of the purpose of copyright away from “the progress of Science and useful Arts” to the protection of the inherent property entitlements of creators, content providers, and rights holders. Alarmist arguments about the imminent collapse of the content industries are as old as the player piano (which music publishers insisted spelled their doom) and the videocassette player (ditto for the MPAA).</blockquote>
via <a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/what-exactly-is-piracy">What exactly is "piracy" in the digital age? - The Los Angeles Review of Books</a>.
<blockquote>Many of our young, libertarian-leaning voters see the idea of a “public domain” as an unconscionable infringement upon property rights even while assuming that “information wants to be free” — particularly for them — on the internet. But I suppose the ability to live in contradiction without “irritable reaching after fact and reason,” as Keats tells us, is the mark of a great artist.</blockquote>