... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.