It could have been good

This hilarious piece of irony is courtesy of youtube of course. Girl Talk is a musician who splices together dozens of songs in to two to three minute compositions to make something new, he has not been sued successfully so far. He features prominently in the documentary Rip: a Remix Manifesto, also on youtube. But the most interesting interview in that documentary is with Clinton's erstwhile 'copyright czar', who claims that the government had 2 plans for the future economic development of the United States: the first option was to throw enormous amounts of money at making the economy green, thus creating an eco-bubble which, after bursting, would leave the United States the greenest country in the world, the second option was to export all manufacturing to the third world and base the economy of future on controlling ideas through the U.S. copyright system, which countries would have to adopt to get the manufacturing contracts. They picked option two, and now that it's failed, option one is the only possible way forward until nanotechnology takes off.