The entertainment industry is its own technological worst enemy

The harder you try to stifle innovation, the harder it will be to try to achieve it. This is a statement that sounds elementary, but the entertainment industry doesn’t seem willing to grasp it.

Soon after the death of SOPA, we wrote about a great post from entrepreneur Tyler Crowley (which, sadly, seems to have disappeared from the internet) discussing his reactions to some entertainment industry execs trying to “make peace” with entrepreneurs. He does a great job discussing different “islands of opportunity” for entrepreneurs, noting that certain “islands” are very welcoming for enterpreneurs and developers: