burn the house to roast the pig
Thinking about innovation today, and censorship. The excerpt below by Lawrence Lessig from RED HERRING 11/02 won't go out of my head...
In 1930, 10,027 books were published. Today, 0 those books are still in print. What would it take to put the remaining 9,853 out-of-print books on the internet?
Later in the article...
As the Supreme Court once said about a statute that banned all indecent speech so that children would not be exposed, we don’t “burn the house to roast the pig.”