> The important thing isn’t who created it, but who shared it—you!—allowing readers to become purveyors of entertaining content to their friends. We’re all complicit now in the joke black market, each share an act of criminal fencing.
This is pretty funny stuff. Imagine the beautiful world of the future, in which kids in playgrounds telling jokes to each other make sure to attribute each one to its original author... Or the dystopian alternative, in which nobody creates jokes because the legal and cultural protections of their intellectual property aren't great enough.
This is pretty funny stuff. Imagine the beautiful world of the future, in which kids in playgrounds telling jokes to each other make sure to attribute each one to its original author... Or the dystopian alternative, in which nobody creates jokes because the legal and cultural protections of their intellectual property aren't great enough.