Q & A With Canada's Michael Geist

Torrentz writes "P2PNet is running a question and answer session with Canada's Michael Geist, a leading Internet and copyright expert. Geist discusses P2P, the music business, and the future direction of copyright law." From the interview: "My focus has traditionally been on Internet issues and I'm very active on privacy, spam, Internet governance issues. The growing attention to copyright merely reflects its critical importance to the Internet and to creativity and culture more generally."

Comments

Experts

[Anonymous Coward]

Michael Geist, a leading Internet and copyright expert

Just how do you get to be a "leading Internet and copyright expert"? We're ALL experts, for crying out loud. I'm an expert, TripMasterMonkey is an expert, dada21 is an expert, CowboyNeal is an expert.

Whoever this Canadian expert is, it's nice to see more people calling for reasonable copyright reform. It's about time.

I buy more copyrighted stuff which I've been able to preview with P2P. 'Nuff said.

CANADA's Micheal Geist?

[i_should_be_working]

So some guy I never heard of represents the whole country now?

Well, take it from Canada's i_should_be_working, DRM is teh suxors.

Wait.. is that what the article is about? Whatever.

Re "Re:finally get to a thread early enough to ...

[themadplasterer]

WTF? What are you people, on dope?!!!

acid

[wadiwood]

And you'd be too hyped up on acid to recognise plain old boredom when you see it.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172500&cid=143 63433

BTW I thought my website was ugly but yours and the one you modelled it on suck more.

I can't believe people are wasting mod points modding this stuff down - at least I wasn't that stupid.