Z:gnu-www-ja-copyright-and-globalization--f3889f-=3Cb=3ETHORBURN=3C/b=3E: One way to un/en

THORBURN: One way to understand all of this discourse today, I think, is to recognize that whenever radical, potentially transforming technologies appear in society, there's a struggle over who controls them. We today are repeating what has happened in the past. So from this angle, there may not be a reason for despair, or even pessimism, about what may occur in the longer run. But, in the shorter term, struggles over the control of text and images, over all forms of information are likely to be painful and extensive.