Calling him a commie is going overboard, which is exactly what he accuses corporations like Disney of bribing congress to do. It seems like every time it's going to become possible for cartoonists to use "Steamboat Willie," copyright gets extended again. Lessig is popular for a reason that a commie would not be popular. Despite the diss of Jesus (I haven't watched this yet, but I've met Larry Lessig and found him one of those "lefties I can talk to") he speaks to what's going on with technology in a way that makes sense to some people, and a commie could not do that. And the "copyleft" thing, while it often looks from a distance like "no property rights," is actually a deeper idea than that, in subtle ways much better explained by Eric Raymond than by me.

Lessig's also TOTALLY right that I should be able to try to decrypt anything I own, and then talk about it if I find a way that works. If IP companies want protection from "hackers," they have a moral and technological choice:

1. Use and pay for decently-strong cryptography (Sonny Bono's law pretended it doesn't exist, which is simply clueless) in the first place, and rely on math to protect your intellectual property. This involves paying an expensive and often-cranky professional, but it prevents a variety of future issues. Or...

2. Try to use your already bought & paid for congresscritters to pass some law against decrypting your crappyass products, which you refused to build right in the first place, in a futile quest that's never going to work without a much-stronger worldwide system of control freakery a la Orwell's 1984 or Animal Farm, and even then laws just won't work as well as using halfway decent crypto.

I'm with choice #1. Build it right in the first place, and there won't be any security issues. It's never PGP that's having the security issues, it's always someone's attempt to go cheap & stupid by trying to substitute secrecy for security. Bottom line lefty law professors like Lessig and I agree-on: Laws should not reward "cheap & stupid," because life doesn't.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

   Was that the same bus obama threw his white grandmother under?

Stop asking "tabloid questions" you Stephanopoulos clone! Focus on real issues like mandatory life sentences for people who use plastic bags!

If you're not outraged at the media, you haven't been paying attention.

I have no sense of humor, zero tolerance for this kind of desecration/sacrilege from people on the left who mock Christ, Christians, the Pope. I realize Christianity has problems within, just as all other religions. In my opinion and to my knowledge Christianity is more charitable to mankind throughout the world than any other religion. People have plenty of other things to make fun of.

Snobbish people like Bill BIG MOUTH Maher, continuously poking fun at Christians, saying it's just a joke, relax, take it easy, it's all in fun. I dare funny man Maher, the loud mouthed buffoon chicken little that he is, to make fun of or cut some jokes about other religions like Islam/Muslim or their prophet Mohammed. Billy Boy would find himself out of a job quicker than Don Imus or worse.

I think Obama may have been born 10-15 years too late. He seems to surround himself with these change, yes we can type radicals (dead from the neck up). 1960's generation still trying to change the world, by any means necessary. I sound just like my dad, I remember him ridiculing me and my friends years ago for associating with like minded people. I snapped out of it, thank God.

I hope to be laughing at Obama if/when he loses in the Nov election, I'm praying for a McCain landslide.

Just a fine example about the world hating Jesus. Sure it's irritating that these people feel that it's funny to mock Jesus but He said himself this type of hatred (or "humor" disguised as hatred) was going to happen.

By justice a king gives stability to a land; but he who imposes heavy taxes ruins it. -Proverbs 29:4

This is typical radical left wing buffoonery. 

these idiots love making fun of Christianity, but they are terrified to do the same to Islam. 

While I am deeply offended, I have come to expect this from anyone that is associated with Barack Obama.  God truly help this nation if this radical, racist, vile, anti-Christian, left wing fool gets elected to the Presidency in November. 

William Ayers (who teaches at UIC where I graduated from)  "Rev."  Wright, Lessig, his wife....I mean these radicals will destroy America.  As they say, birds of the same flock fly together.  Or as we say in Spanish, "Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres."  roughly translated to, "Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are".  J

I have said it countless times.  Barack Obama reminds me of Hugo Chavez in 1998 when he was able to get even the most sophisticated Venezuelan Conservative to vote for him.  Now, these same Venezuelans regret ever supporting this monster.  Chavez had the same slogans of change and hope.  Well we know now where this "change" and "hope" has led Venezuela.   

while I don't believe Obama wants to be a dictator, he will make every effort and succeed in many cases to take the United States of America as far left as he can. 

I pray that this nation wakes up and doesn't allow this great imbecile to ever get into power. 

Is it time --that the Christians build an army of Soldiers of Christ to defend our faith and our families?? Should Christians teach the world that we should not be treated worse than Muslims or an other religion?/ Or should we continue to turn the other cheek??

Where I grew up, if you turned the other cheek, that just enabled the other guy to punch you on that side! If we do nto fight for respect, we will get none!!!!!!

Lessig should do the same video with a gay singing Prophet Mohammad getting hit by a bus.

That would effectively be the end of the Obama campaign.

Still awaiting the humor.

I got a great idea to try out. Just as the Jesus one, this one won't be funny either, but that didn't stop him here so he should go for it.  Break out one of the prophet Mohammed and let's see what reaction that brings.  Should be good times for all eh?

I don't believe that most people who mock Jesus really hate him or his principles. It seems more as an attempt to piss off Christians or, more specifically, Catholics because they know that making fun of Jesus is one of their push-buttons. Does it make you a communist, though, to despise, if not hate, organized religion? I support the war effort going on in Iraq and Afghanistan and I have deep respect for the military, but that doesn't mean I have to respect religion, specifically organized religion. I don't like the Catholic Church, I don't like evangelical Christianity, and I don't like Islam, whether it's moderate or radical-extremist. Yeah, I'm always annoyed that we can't even see the Danish cartoons depicting their prophet in the Mainstream Media. It's even worse in Canada. Art Spiegleman wrote an article in a Canadian magazine that featured the actual "offending" cartoons while he critiqued each one of them, and some bookstores refused to place the magazine on their stands. At least we are not in Canada, so I can say, without any hesitation,... Suck it, Mohammed. It's not nearly as hard as it sounds. You just write it, and it's out there.