Governance across borders is all about building and/or changing institutions in a transnational realm. In this regard, existing institutions often turn out to be not so rigid or firm after all. The cartoon below, taken with permission of the author Winston Rowntree from a larger piece at viruscomix.com (via), hits the nail on the head:
In the context of copyright as an institution, I like to think of the large monster’s feet representing international copyright treaties such as WTO’s TRIPS Agreement or the WIPO Internet Treaties, the small monster being Shawn Fanning, the programmer of Napster.
(leonhard)
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September 10, 2010 at 18:37
Crosbie Fitch
Moreover, their brains are very slow (and borg/committee-like in terms of strategy).
They also cannot actually see beneath their belly – and only imagine their legs to be elephantine and invulnerable – hence the vermin that slip ‘under their radar’.
They are quite alien entities. They have zero humanity, less even than that which remains in mankind’s most extreme psychopaths.
Like the Death Star, extremely dangerous and powerful but vulnerable to those who undermine them (wittingly or not).