THank god for guys like Lessig.  Intellectual property laws are seriously out of hand.

So nice to see someone who calls out Lessig for who he really is.  Everything he does is aimed at one goal: the glorification of Prof. Lawrence Lessig.

This is nonsense, i dont know what these caterwalling twits are blowing their horns for, but nothing these people say ever make sense.

Lessig is a mighty mighty thinker and founder of EFF.ORG. google Lawrence Lessig and find out yourself. His has fought for example against stupid stupid Intellectual property laws and in favor of fair use (which means you can copy your cds to protect them for example, something the record industry calls theft.)

If you are the kind of person who thinks the RIAA should be suing music fans -then stay away from Lessig.

He has decided to move from those issues, to corruption. He will be fighting to get rid of corruption now. Watch for efforts to get the money out of Washington, you know like lobbyists and political hacks.

And hacks trying to make their agenda seem progressive by talking about the school someone works for.

Stanford represents the very type of monopoly on learning and knowledge that Lessig purports to oppose. But, this particular monopoly feathers his particular nest, so I guess he thinks it's OK. That's the point, not your irrelevant quibble about the definition of a "fortune," nor even less what Charles Barkley "once said."

And, apparently, Lessig was NOT upfront about where the money would go if he didn't run. The notice to that effect was put on Act Blue sometime after he announced his "exploratory committee" and asked for donations. In any event, Lessig denounced PACs and refused to take any PAC money. But now he is forming his own PAC. You don't see any problem there?

And stop poisoning the well. No, I don't work for the music business. This has nothing to do with music. I never even once mentioned it. Believe it or not, there are people in the world who don't think the world revolves around the issues of music downloads and the like.

Dont listen in here there is nothing progressive in this diary. Google Lawrence Lessig, visit eff.org, visit http://creativecommons.org and read any of the many books.

The fact that Lessig has been suggested for AG and SCOTUS, the fact he is one of the leading thinkers in the internet and internet freedom, the leading thinker in internet neutrality. Larry Lessig is it. The people who hate him are, the record industry, Microsoft (Lessig was lead counsel for a time when it was sued  by States for monopoly) and patent trolls. use google to search slashdot.org for very well researched talk about the subjects Lessig is an expert in, who all cite Lessig.

This isn't just trashing him because he endorsed Obama is it?

Do you have any substantial point explaining your anger and animus?