[TAG] [Fwd:] In RI federal court -- Harvard vs. the RIAA

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ben Okopnik (ben at linuxgazette.net):

> Unfortunately, that rings a little hollow when used as an argument for
> the RIAA. The Tragedy of the Commons *is* a very important consideration
> in, e.g., on-line communities, and should be required reading for anyone
> involved in running one (it was, in fact, the major factor that
> destroyed USENET - at least in my opinion), but using that possibility
> to maintain a permanent death grip on artistic expression is a
> ridiculous case of FUD. Have you heard of the Tragedy of the
> Anticommons?

If there's some way you can (please) continue to tell bloggers that
Usenet has been destroyed by spam, that will be of immense value to
us real newsgroup users, particularly on comp.os.*.linux .  The favour
would be much appreciated.  (It can continue to be September all year
around in the blogosphere, and nobody will notice anything wrong.)