Via Alex Whalen, from whom I pretty much got interested in and learned everything about communications policy and history - this article by Bill Wyman for Slate looks at the gathering storm clouds for the visual (TV, movies) entertainment industry and compares them to what technology has done to the music industry. They can see it coming, and you know they're gonna make the same mistakes again and again.
In Alex's class I learned that whenever there is an innovation in how information is shared, it takes the private sector and the government time to catch up and be able to truly regulate it. And usually by the time they do, there's already another new piece of tech that they don't have a handle upon that is reshaping how people communicate.
Welcome to the next generation of the digital age, Hollywood.
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