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The UK music industry has been told it must rethink the way it tackles digital music or face long-term decline.
BBC Online report.

“If record companies do not make their own digital music services more attractive to fans, they could continue to lose out to music piracy over the internet, a DTI report has said. ”

Scientific American: Tragedy of the Cyber Commons. Q&A with Lawrence Lessig. This freedom is increasingly under threat. The danger is that one class of property owners will use the legal system to veto certain kinds of innovation that no longer accord with its business interests. These owners will have the power to choose what kind of innovation is permitted–and that’s inconsistent with the innovation commons. [Tomalak's Realm]

There’s a bug in the idea that the govt could require the computer hacks that the entertainment industry wants. At some point the govt will realize that it would render its own computers unusable. Of course they could put exemptions on their computers. Then we could all get government jobs. We’ll need them, because there won’t be any computer industry jobs except to make computers for the government.   [Scripting News]