I was fascinated to read in Mark Pincus' blog about the Swedish Pirate Party. Here is an interview with the founder of the party.

I wrote my views on copyright some years ago in a book called "The Infinite Digital Jukebox". My belief is that in a digital world there are two principal sets of laws that you can't mess with - The laws of physics that determine that bits and bytes move at the speed of light and the laws of human nature which determine that people will want to get things at the minimum possible price.

The problem now is that almost everyone is guilty of copyright theft. And when all of society is criminal, clearly the man made laws that determine this are at fault.

DRM doesn't work in a bit torrent world. The extended length of the period of copyright to 70 years after the death of the creator doesn't do anything to contribute to that author's well being, nor of his or her immediate family. These laws entrench the financial power of the corporations who are the publishers.

And yet, what they also do ironically, is to weaken those same corporations. They do this because they create a fallacious illusion that the business models of the past will still work in the future.

We live in a world where anything that can be digitized will be commodotized. And in that world commercial opportunity lives in the 'instant' - the instant delivery of a solution, a piece of music or vision.

The world as we knew it is coming apart - and being reshaped by the googles, the skypes and the my space's of the Internet. Where will it go next?