Sony to blame tube sites too?

[RawAlex]

One of the sites I visit often enough is a blog packed full of people who hate copyright, hate patents, hate anything that restricts the flow of information. They don't looking at the sharing of music or movies as theft, but as "infringement" of the copyright holder only. They have a very narrow sort of self justification going on that allows them to say to themselves they aren't stealing anything, they are just in violation of some sort of technical license thingie, sort of like driving slightly too fast on the highway or double dipping your chip into the salsa.

It's really amusing to watch them go, until you realize that these shits have many of the bully pulpit positions. One of the leaders of the pack is Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired... his new book on "FREE!" marketing will be polluting bookstores soon. Interestingly, his book will be on sale, rather than being just pushed off onto P2P sites for free distribution.

Danny, you are right, if you can see it, you can copy it - but if you can stream it, you can label it and create liability for a file sharer.