My God.
I’m stricken, Charlie.
Just because a dinosaur is dead doesn’t mean it’s safe to to poke the body for a while.
Still, this is the most extravagant miscarriage of justice I’ve heard of in some time.
Despite my possessing no more qualified expertise in the areas of copyright or the economics of music creation than a truck driver might have of existentialism, I know that this verdict is Kafkaesque.
I apologize deeply for not having provided any help I might have by being there.
Love and sorrow,
Barlow
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John Perry Barlow, Peripheral Visionary
Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Berkman Fellow, Harvard Law School