The Darknet as the great equalizer

The San Francisco Chronicle today has a story about Darknet titled, Underworld's 'Darknet' foments copyright revolution against Hollywood. (Chronicle photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice)

Just to be clear, Darknet advocates a personal media revolution and reform of the U.S. laws governing copyright. Excerpt from the piece:

Saying the 20th century's passive media consumer has been replaced by today's active media user, Lasica argues that the Darknet is a creative, democratic realm that will only grow in popularity to the extent that Hollywood doesn't get it.

"In a few years, technology will allow us to carry hundreds of movies or TV shows on a single keychain," he writes. "But will the media companies and their tech allies really get us there? I'm not sure." ...

"The excesses of copyright have gotten to the point where some of our traditional rights have gotten stripped away," he said. "As we're turning into more of a visual culture and we evolve from a print and text culture to a multimedia culture, are we going to have the same rights to quote from and borrow from and cite visual works as we had in the past?" ...