C4SS Feed 44 presents Thomas L. Knapp‘s “‘Intellectual Property’ is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” read by Erick Vasconcelos and edited by Nick Ford.

I came late to the news of Twitpic‘s impending (and thankfully partial) closure and even later to an explanation for it.

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That may not seem like a big deal but it was, especially for amateur journalists covering, or non-journalists caught up in, fast-moving events.”

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Twitpic is gone now. It shot itself in the foot, after which Twitter followed suit to its own foot and to Twitpic’s head, over “intellectual property.

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