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Another interview with lawrence Lessign echoing themes that are now familiar to OLDaily readers. "If Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig is right, the Internet will soon belong to Hollywood studios, record labels, and cable operators -- corporate giants that he says are trying to cordon off chunks of the once-open data network. Lessig's mission is to stop them." You know, it occurs to me (as an old FidoNet hand) - if the media companies do succeed in capturing the internet, you can just bet that an alternative network will be developed, a network in which corporate ownership will be anathema.

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