What of mass-produced culture?
There are people that believe that we are headed for a cultural shift unlike anything ever seen before. The League Of Noble Peers have produced a documentary called Steal This Film, in which they describe the movement against intellectual property. They predict that we are headed for an age in which people are no longer restricted by copyrights on their culture, and I hope they are right. Sebastian Lutgert, of Pirate Cinema, and interviewed in Steal This Film, says this: The panic of the movie and music industry is that people could actually start to produce, that file-sharing networks and technology enable them to produce stuff. Oh, how I hope he’s right – they need a good panicking. For some time now, I’ve seen a growing movement towards community-created content, and I realized that in order to be a part of the society, you have to contribute something. That is the single reason that I started this blog – to be a part of this growing society where everybody does something valuable,
