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John Perry Barlow

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10.01.2000 12:00 PM

The Next Economy Of Ideas

Will copyright survive the Napster bomb? Nope, but creativity will.
The great cultural war has broken out at last. Long awaited by some
and a nasty surprise to others, the conflict between the industrial
age and the virtual age is now being fought in earnest, thanks to
that modestly conceived but paradigm-shattering thing called Napster.
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Will copyright survive the Napster bomb? Nope, but creativity will.

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