The intro to Lawrence Lessig's book Remix, talks about the culture of "kids" today. It says that in todays digital age remixing happens everyday. He uses an example of a person who video taped her baby dancing to Prince song and posted it on youtube.com, the owners of the song requested that the video be taken down and youtube.com complied. Lessig wonders why they even put so much effort into stopping something that happens on a regular bases in the digital age.
Lessig describes two different cultures, Read only (RO) and Read/Write (RW) culture:
1) RO culture is a top down culture where the consumer only consumes. The people distributing decides to the consumers get.
2) In a RW culture the consumers consume and produce. People consuming the product will create new material. I feel like in a Web 2.0 culture, we live in a very RW society.
Lessig also uses Sousa's quote about radio/stereo type machine. Sousa basically says that he feels that the invention of that product is going to destroy creativity because no one will want to make anything original. Lessig uses this to prove his point that remixing will not destroy but instead promote creativity!
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