Unintended Consequences and Copyright Law
Once pocket storage gets to the tera-byte level and the net is policed for infringing technology — not infringing activity — you get…sneakernet 2.0.
Right. I had forgotten about that…
The sneakernet will come back if needed. “I believe this is a ‘wild card’ that most people in the music industry are not seeing at all,” writes Swedish filesharing researcher Daniel Johansson. “When music fans can say, ‘I have all the music from 1950-2010, do you want a copy?’ — what kind of business models will be viable in such a reality?”
From Mike Masnick’s excellent run down of the Cato Institute’s series on “The Future of Copyright.”
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