Obama and Edwards Get It

If you missed the recent presidential debates on NBC, you're out of luck because NBC has prohibited any Internet redistribution (i.e. YouTube) of debate footage. Well, Barack Obama and John Edwards have both sent letters to the Democratic National Convention requesting that copyright owners of all debates waive those rights to allow distribution of the footage. To me, this seems like a reasonable request, I mean people should have access to this information. Yet another case of the big corporations either not caring or just not getting that the ground is falling out from beneath them. The Internet and all that comes with it is a key issue. Corporations are fighting to control it and, by extension, control how we access information. Having a president that gets this is important.