Author Cory Doctorow echoes comments I’ve previously made about the difficulty of applying traditional copyright practices to high volume internet based publishing models, and the need to weigh the benefits of fast, highly accessible information publishing against the benefits of good copyright practices. But Doctorow goes farther and seems to conclude that a complete overhaul is the best way to go, that fast, unfettered publishing far outweighs any good derived from carefully protecting the rights of creators.
I’m not so sure. I certainly don’t want to screen out opinions and radical views, but I belive there is great benefit in a system that injects a time for reflection and review into content before it is willy-nilly sent out with no hope of ever being retrieved. I wouldn’t want to go through all emails, I don’t want to have to wade through more rather than less stuff to find things worth reading.
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