I was at a joyous pre-IFP event tonight (tomorrow's seminar is all about just how bad copyright problems are for independent film-makers).  It was a gathering of the loyal opposition:  we're all for copyright, don't get us wrong, but we're not so sure that the trend lines are going in the right direction.  We had a fine time.

Perhaps we should have gone collectively (if only virtually) to the content session David Weinberger went to earlier this week.  Froomkin snips from Weinberger's post:

they’re going to win. They own Congress and neither Congress nor the entertainment cartel sees any reason to compromise. Their Lakoffian frame tells them that they’re stopping theft, end of story. So they are going to kill the Internet and they don’t even know it.

If these two groups ever met -- other than at a polite Hill assemblage to discuss the future of the Induce act -- could they have a civilized conversation?  Or is discourse impossible?