Junk for Code

the high tech gift economy

I've just come across this review of John Alderman's, Sonic Boom: Napster, P2P and the battle for the future of music(2001). The book is about the way the corporate music business stubbornly resisted any accommodation with the new technology. It's a well known story of the corporate leaders using their lobbying power and legal resources to attack the Net by having the copyright laws strengthened, blocking software development and closing down websites.