There's so much to ponder from this post by Prokofy. It's taken me days to digest and ponder it, and I don't think I'm ready for a full reaction.

But I can respond to one aspect of it, I think:

Still, Second Life is ultimately disruptive of the entertainment industry and also business applications industry because it enables ordinary people to write, script, stage, and act in their own shows of any genre, or control their own commercial environments without so much dependency on specialists and talented people.

A few years back, fueled by my never-ending hatred of all things Entertainment Industry, I postulated Vader's Law of Media based on this Princess Leia quote from Star Wars:

"The tighter you clench your fist, the more star systems will slip between your fingers."

And then I looked at the BBC's whines about Dr. Who episodes leaking across the world early and postulated what interconnectivity meant for future content-hoarding conglomerates.

I'm still trying to figure how Second Life fits into the concept of Vader's Law of Media, but it appears to be one of providing a platform which the individuals can exercise their creativity with storytelling without resorting to packaged, censored, and sponsored least-common-denominator garbage peddled by major entertainment conglomerates.

Every attempt by mass media to slander, malign, co-opt, and vilify Second Life appears to have failed or is failing miserably... the grid is growing, not shrinking.

The tighter they try to squeeze, the more viewers, listeners, and participants slip between their fingers and into the virtual worlds, the videogames, the...

Themselves.

Here's the big question I have ... will LL's management fall into the trap of reaching into the grid with a black-gloved cyborg fist in ways that aren't required by the law, or will they let the grid happen as freely as it has been happening?

I don't think that'll happen. With all the bugs, glitches, and other problems people run into, the one thing that keeps bringing people back is the freedom of expression. And to choke that off would be disastrous.

But, Phil Forbid, it happens - where do people go when they slip between LL's fingers?