Re: Oh dear. What a poor metaphor!
Except for your publishers, who still refuse to sell your works on the conwork... For them, the world is static.
Finally, the publishers - after much negotiation with a company in the technology industry - get round to selling your works to people over this conwork.
But it's too late. People have spent so long trading your work on the conwork for free that the value of it has been changed.
This is exactly what happened. The industry tried to pass a law against the tides and were left high and dry instead of doing what everyone was doing and surf the waves.
To mix metaphors, that horse has left the barn.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
