Saturday, 7. August 2010
Topic: SECURITY - on August 7, 2010 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
How The Pentagon's Reaction To Wikileaks Is Like The RIAA's Reaction To Napster
Earlier, we wrote about the Pentagon's ridiculous and counterproductive attacks on Wikileaks, noting that it was the exact wrong approach to take. In writing that, I probably should have made the connection to some other, similarly short-sighted "attacks" on something one legacy group felt was a threat, but which actually was probably an opportunity -- and in attacking it, that legacy group only served to (1) draw more attention to it and (2) create even more, harder to work with, clones. I'm talking, of course, about the RIAA and its reaction to Napster.
techdirt.com DoD Hypes Wikileaks Hype Pentagon to Troops: Taliban Can Read WikiLeaks, You Can’t Pentagon Demands WikiLeaks Return All Documents Pentagon demands WikiLeaks stuff genie back in bottle Pentagon bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks
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