Wednesday, February 04, 2004
: Viral: There's a new blog covering the business of digital music called nthoctave. I was amused by this post about howthe CEO of SonyMusic thinks lawyers are slow to get the digital music biz. From my experience, lawyers simply exist to spawn more lawyers. They are a virus on a very macro level. The parallels to the microscopic world are uncanny. Once a host entity grows large enough, they either generate lawyers or are taken over by another entity that has lawyers. Lawyers then send letters to new entities requiring them to generate more lawyers. Any effect, good or bad, they have on the system is merely incidental. Sometimes they protect an idea from theft, other times they clog the ecosystem with paper. Feh.
