Lawrence Lessig: War against file sharers "has failed"

Interesting interview with Lawrence Lessig, Stanford professor and founder of Creative Commons, posted on YouTube last week regarding his recent book "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy." He acknowledges the role that amateurs and other are doing to use music through new technologies, but feels that society isn't encouraging it in a positive way.

"Kids take digital objects like music or video and remix and share it with friends," he said. "They share it on YouTube and Lawyers come along and slap them with a Notice of Takedown and force it off the network."

According to Lessig, the war on file sharing has not stopped the problem and considers it a failure.

"The point of the book is that we've been waging a war against [file sharers] for 10 years, and it has failed," he said. "We've had our surge and it's failed and so I think we should stop waging a failed war and stop suing kids."