For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words.

Over ninety percent of artists and musicians do not make their living from their recording contracts or art sales, so there is no easy life that copyleft will ruin. That said, every little helps. Reputation is the key, and copyleft does not harm reputation. Easy access to your work may even help your reputation.

It's early days in what promises to be the long death of a galactic civilization so it is going to be hard to discern how things might reshape themselves under this bombardment, how art and the art-world might re-articulate new models of value.

Does technology liberate or enslave? The tension between technology as empowering versus technology as sinister control continues. The web versus the database, liberation or tool of tyranny?

Open Source can be explained entirely within the context of conventional open-market economics. Indeed, it turns out that it has much stronger ties to the phenomenon of capitalism than you may have appreciated.

harsh and interesting criticism on the way to present the merits of open source software

There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience.

the big problem of IE and standards, explained