Ask HN: Why in the world hasn't this talk gone viral on YouTube?
Lawrence Lessig at SCALE 12x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3O1MC1AqvM 1) Its long. 2) Its technical/legal. 3) I'm 19 minutes in and i'm still not sure when we're going to get to an actual argument/thesis/point that he wants to emphasize in this presentation... 4) He's talking to a bunch of yes men/preaching to the choir (by which i mean, he's not persuading, he's putting out an opinion to a bunch of people who already hold said opinion and who lap it up and laugh on cue like congress claps on cue during official speeches... 5) It has the word Linux associated with it. > It has the word Linux associated with it.
YES! Because there is no shortage of anti-copyright activists right now. It's an old issue, and this video offers nothing new. It doesn't even present the info in a nice, quick, easily-digestible way (which is pretty important for something to go viral). His jokes just make it look like a video made for people who already agree with him. After reflecting on this a bit, I think the biggest problem is that the point of the whole talk wasn't brought up until the end. Who knew this was actually about Campaign Finance Reform before they stopped watching?