Lessig

Lessig gives some very good points in his TED talk on "the laws that choke creativity". What I found particularly interesting was his final point. He argues that because of the "choke" on creativity and the limitations and views of copyright law, the generation of today lives a life "against the law". Every time someone posts something online that contains any type copyrighted material, it is technically against the law. He expresses that he feels that this is not the way it should be in a democratic society. I agree that we should embrace this creativity, not limit it.

In Lessig's blog post he mentions his concern with Youtube and other "fake" sharing sites. He discusses that Youtube doesn't allow users to "get" the content from the site as sites like Flickr and Google do. What I found interesting is that Google had purchased Youtube just 10 days prior to the writing of Lessig's post. A quick look at Google's video service showed that most of the videos provided are simply links to Youtube. Therefore Youtube and Google both don't allow users to "get" this content. Maybe this blog post is a bit outdated...