— cory doctorow in interview with, yes… joel turnipseed on kottke. i agree with his reduction of the copyright issue… though i know it’s full of problems. whenever i see an issue of Time for Kids my mom is giving to her class of Fifth Graders which presents some ludicrous simplification of file-sharing or copyright i panic and have to struggle to supress a piercing cry. same when i talk to kids who tell me file-sharing is categorically bad - invariably they’ve heard it in school and it makes me sick. one way or another, it’s still an issue in flux, and until it’s reached some stable point, i’d rather news sources aimed at children and schools not fill them with univocal rubish. that being said, tim wu has a good appraisal in his slate series on laws we break. For more, you should read Lessig on Free Culture and the Creative Commons.