Hope to see many of you at South by Southwest this coming week. I’ll be moderating the darknets panel at 11:30 am Monday. (They’ll post podcasts of each session some time afterward.) I’m no fan of panels where they line up two Official Spokespersons from one side to face off against two Official Spokespersons from the other side. So you’ll forgive us if we try to move beyond the way this question is usually framed — file-sharing pirates vs. digital anarchists — and tackle more interesting questions, about the limits (if any) of online privacy, whether “lightnet” values can work in a secure private network, whether freenets can serve as a bulkwark against corporate interests, and whether artists can benefit from enclosed or public p2p networks.
We have some cool panelists, including Ian Clarke, in town all the way from Edinburgh, Scotland, and Kori Bernards from the MPAA.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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