[x-pubpol] Cory Doctorow: Music: The Internet’s Original Sin

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/07/cory-doctorow-music-the-internets-original-sin/



In a recent Search Engine podcast, host Jesse Brown wondered about music’s
ongoing centrality to the debate over file-sharing and freedom. After all,
the music industry has all but abandoned lawsuits against fans, and
services from Last.fm to the Amazon MP3 store present a robust set of legit
ways of hearing and acquiring music. The labels have even abandoned DRM. So
why is the music industry the enduring bogeyman of Internet policy fights?
Brown called downloading music ‘‘the Internet’s original sin,’’ and posited
that we’ll go on talking for music for a long time yet.

I think he’s right. Music exists in a sweet spot between commerce and
culture, individual and collective effort, identity and industry, and
digital and analog – it is the perfect art-form to create an infinite
Internet controversy.

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