Doctorow: Why a rights robocop will never work

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/30/copyright
"Remaking the internet to invade privacy and silence our conversations is a crummy idea, but even worse is the fact that it won't actually stop or even slow infringement. But for so long as there are technology companies with magic beans to sell - and desperate, ageing entertainment execs willing to buy them - we'll have to keep fighting."

The interesting aspect of this to me is how do we make free and open stuff findable without getting caught into this kind of thinking/identification of things which are closed and open.

Janet