Comments on: Bubblegate!

By: Last Bubble News, We Swear! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:32:45 +0000

[...] So the famous Bubble music video seems to have survived another potential pre-holiday takedown. [...]

By: Lane Hartwell: Still Wrong | Mathew Ingram | Voices | AllThingsD

Lane Hartwell: Still Wrong | Mathew Ingram | Voices | AllThingsD — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:02:35 +0000

[...] the risk of beating an already unrecognizable horse even further into the ground, I see that there’s a new “Bubble” video from the band Richter Scales available, with the offending image of Owen Thomas — the photo that Lane Hartwell filed a DMCA takedown [...]

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:39:38 +0000

Phil:

Well said!

Bruce:

Sing it, sister! The Richter Scales need to get RIGHT on it!

By: Bruce Evans

Bruce Evans — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:28:54 +0000

Ha Ha … I can’t wait for the version, due next week I guess, with nothing but shots of Kara.

By: Phil Gilbert

Phil Gilbert — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:54:53 +0000

ahhh… all of us “information wants to be free” people aren’t so cavalier when the information is OUR information, are we? This is a silly situation… people, have we actually lost this much of a sense of humor about ourselves? Did we actually LOSE anything when our precious images were used? As Chris Smither says: “lose your blues and screw your head on tight again…”

The Creative Commons starts (as Lessig points out in his TED presentation) with Common Sense. And the folk who have beat up on the creators of this piece have lost theirs. Shame on them, and shame on PDNPulse for Drudge-reporting this nonsense.

The ironic aspect of this is I’ll bet that the same people who are turning this episode into, well, Bubblegate (nice one, Kara) also rail on all the right (or, possibly, left) wing haters out there who bring up every niche issue, at the expense of finding our centrist way in this new world we live in, which exists politically as well as in our daily tech lives on the internet.

Well, to sum this up, I liked the original version better…