Copywrited

In class, we watched some clips and TED talks about the idea of who owns what in the new digital age. One person explained that the "read-write culture" -- wherein people participate and change the media they encounter -- has revived itself with the arrival of new digital technology. However, this ability to change pre-existing media has produced mixed results, from innocuous forms of free entertainment to money-making invasions of privacy.

Because there are so many extreme cases which cast this free-exchange of media in a bad light, it can never be given free reign to do actual good. Although it has freed us from a stagnant "read only" culture, this new access to any and everything has been sorely taken advantage of. I imagine that as new technology is discovered and exploited, this problem can only spiral further out of control because clearly there isn't any blanket law that can justly settle all disputes. It seems the options are to descend into miserly guardedness or iniquitous thievery.