Good column, as usual, by the San Jose Mercury News’ Dan Gillmor about Microsoft’s sleazy alliance with the even sleazier entertainment industry.

Hollywood and the record companies would like the Internet to be a “read-only” medium, where the only interactivity consists of you and me clicking on a button that says “Buy this.” The multi-directional Web is a threat to that online-TV vision. (In the irony-free zone of entertainment companies, it may escape notice that the First Amendment, which could easily take a hit in this new fear-ridden era, protects the industry’s very existence.)

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