Tensions

Tensions have been a theme for me in the last several months, those tensions found their way into some of the conversations we had in class today. I read a chapter about the "Internet Threat" (Chapter 4), and how efforts to protect creative work and innovations from piracy the internet became overprotected and gave place to digital copyright. While creative work and innovations are thus better protected, they also suffer because of the those same protections. 

Could we conceive a world without these tensions? Could protections only protect and cause no harm? Would we be more creative or more innovative without restrictions? Are we maybe more creative and more innovative because of those restrictions? Maybe learning and creativity are enhanced when faced with imposed boundaries that force us to find alternative ways to do things?

Whatever the case, solutions (like copyright) are always partial and temporary in a way; they easily become obsolete, or at least insufficient, and in need to be updated.