The Civil Wars talk about music and piracy in the age of the internet and social media. The Civil Wars have lots of videos up on YouTube, many of them nicely shot amateur stuff in color and black-and-white. John Paul White and Joy Williams have a captivating look about them as they stare into one another’s eyes, [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 3, 2012
Imagine you had a time machine that could only take you back in time ten years. The two towers had already fallen ten years ago in the horrifying September 11th attacks. George W. Bush had only been president for about a year. Everyone had the internet already, though it was significantly slower than it is [...]
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Julian Sanchez has an excellent piece in Ars Technica which takes a look at the claim that content creators are being discouraged from creative pursuits due to online piracy – a claim that has fueled the recently stalled anti-piracy legislation in congress. Whether SOPA and PIPA would have actually worked is an open question, but [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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