Here’s a nice comment by Cory on a presentation by Matt Mason, one of our mesh08 keynotes, at the Medici Summit:
Matt’s spiel is great, and for the first 30-or-so minutes, I found myself just nodding along as he expressed — eloquently and delightfully — things I’d heard others like Lessig, Barlow (and me!) say. But then he got to his kicker, and I sat up, electrified: “The best way to profit from pirates is to copy them.”This is one of those eloquent little aphorisms — like Tim O’Reilly’s “The problem for artists isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity” — that just nails it.
(The video link seems to be dead now, but there are loads of other references to Matt, including video, on the web.)