Ahh, to be vindicated. Remember back in the mid-00's (pronounce that if you dare) when I used to write about how wacked the idea was that the internet had changed ideas of ownership and expression? How all these dwips trying to nick the ideas of others for their own profit was a load of hooey? I won't go link happy but here is an example. Well, turns out the first new idea of the new decade is that the last decade was a bit of a joke:

Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist — he popularized the term “virtual reality” — wonders if the Web’s structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” is a manifesto against “hive thinking” and “digital Maoism,” by which he means the glorification of open-source software, free information and collective work at the expense of individual creativity. He blames the Web’s tradition of “drive-by anonymity” for fostering vicious pack behavior on blogs, forums and social networks. He acknowledges the examples of generous collaboration, like Wikipedia, but argues that the mantras of “open culture” and “information wants to be free” have produced a destructive new social contract.

Destructive! Imagine someone thinking that. Or how about this: "any lock on a car or a home can be broken, yet few people do so — or condone break-ins." Who could ever have foreseen that this would be the way the new order actually shook out?

So if this is the case, will copyright leeching be the wide leg jeans of the first decade of the new millennium?