We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.
We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.
Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.
Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.
I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything.
I feel like with the whole Internet era, people can be so judgmental and evil online.
I'm from the era before the Internet, so I know what's real and what's not so you've just got to learn to roll with the punches.
For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.
