Oh Nine, Eff Nine: Strategic Mnemonic and Protest Song for a New Medium
Something else hit me about the digital rights protest song “Oh Nine, Eff Nine” — as a social phenomenon, it’s both inextractably embedded in the structure of a new medium AND a continuation of a tradition that’s probably as old as language.
First, it’s a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.
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