June 15, 2009

The remedy for the creative industries is already in their name.

Sir Stephen Garrett writes that “Piracy is threatening the survival of creative industries” June 15 because governments have not been cooperative enough blocking piracy on the web. But, since there are many that hold that the creative industries are themselves a major threat to creativity that might not be entirely such a bad thing. That some jobs are lost while the adjustments to the new world order are made? Could be, but there’s were real creativity comes in. Anyhow no one would dare to order the wheels off the luggage in order to safeguard the jobs of porters… or would they?