Clay Shirky is a consistently solid thinker on media and policy. No surprise, then, that his thoughts on PIPA/SOPA (now dead, thankfully) and the approach of the old media conglomerates in general:
Traditional American media firms are implacably opposed to any increase in citizens’ ability to create, copy, save, alter, or share media on our own. They fought against cassette audio tapes, and photocopiers. They swore the VCR would destroy Hollywood. They tried to kill Tivo. They tried to kill MiniDisc. They tried to kill player pianos. They do this whenever a technology increases user freedom over media. Every time. Every single time.
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