Monday 7 January 2008
Frankly, the only way to police the net for infringement is to throttle it. And that’s exactly what the proactive policing that many artists are calling for would do. If web-hosting platforms are legally required to prevent their users from infringing, the only way to accomplish this would be to severely limit who got to use the service, either by introducing high user-fees or simply telling the majority of us to piss off and go back to writing in our diaries at home. Cory Doctorow ☀
