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Wednesday, December 3

Goths, Visigoths and CNet

I have been receiving sleazy offers to rehost the Highfield Choir's music with the closure of MP3.com, but nothing really was going to save this unique remnant of the Bubble. Maybe the season itself is best forgotten, but not since the burning of the library of Alexandia has so much hard work been destroyed so thoughtlessly as C|Net has just achieved. Between C|Net, Microsoft's work to lock up the written word, the RIAA's work to defeat the love of music generally and the MPAA's work to render the moving image closed, it seems likely that future historians will find 21st century culture as opaque as the Dark Ages. Last time it was through lack of culture; this time it will be because of the victory of greed over civilization.

posted at 3:05 AM (UK) | |

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