'Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.'
Andy Baio conjures a frightening spectre for the major media conglomerates, at least considering how the original Prohibition turned out. But today’s consumers – drinkers, if you will, of ideas and aesthetics – are tapping into streams of discovery and creation whose breadth and depth were unimaginable just a century ago.
[via Daring Fireball]
