I surprisingly enjoyed Lessig's book for class. While I did write on my blog earlier that there was too much political mumbo jumbo in it, I actually ended up enjoying it by the end. While I did think that Lessig's own experience about the Eldredge case was relevant, it did get drawn out and again portray too much politics. However, I did not see this the reason that Lessig wrote the book to being with. Lessig was obviously upset about losing his case, as anyone would be, and I felt he did a great job making the reader feel like they were in the moment during this case. (Of course then in class we found out he took alot directly from his blog and plugged it into the book.)
Overall, I ended up being convinced by Lessig's argument. I do think that technology is ever changing, and that laws need to keep changing as well. There is so much creativity that will be lost, physically, if we do not do something about it now. I think that the e-books online are heading in the right direction-they limit users, but still allow users to have some privileges.
In one of my other classes we were actually talking about how one day, libraries may be obsolete due to new technologies. I would really hope this wouldn't be the case, but what do you think? Do you think we will ever see a day when we cannot take our kids to the library to pick out books on a rainy day?
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