"The idea that the Internet is somehow immune from law or regulation or the protection of people’s rights has been seen as a progressive idea. It’s the 'free and open Internet.' But if you really think about that for a second, that’s not a progressive argument. It’s a libertarian argument, because the same regulations that annoy you might be the regulations that protect me."
Scott Timberg in Salon interviews Robert Levine, author of Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back.
And Jeffrey Rosen in The New York Times reviews Levine's book.
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