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As much as I enjoyed Lessig's "Free Culture," many of the topics he discussed seemed downright archaic, especially his perception of file sharing.

For my group's final project, I'd love to do a video mashup from various chapters across the book that relate to the millenial issue of file sharing and how these have been resolved and/or affected by torrenting. Essentially, a mashup about Lessig's ideas regarding fair use and mashups. Relevant passages include:

"If 99.4 percent is not good enough, then this is a war on file-sharing technologies, not copyright infringement." (74)

"But how, and to what extent, and in what form--the details, in other words--matter? To get a good sense of how turning the intangible into property emerged, we need to place this 'property' in its proper context." (84)

"Much of 'sampling' should be considered 'fair use.'" (107)