I suppose it was about five years ago. Erica was explaining that some dude had accidentally erased all of the music on her "iPod." This, apparently, was some sort of tragedy. I tried to sympathize. "I can't believe that jerk! Are you alright?" I consoled.
Is there a better Bob Wills clip than this? I've never seen it, if so. BTW, these were designed to be rear-projected, so everything is reversed —that's why Wills, Joe Holley, Bobby Koefer, and Cotton Whittington all seem to be playing leftie.
Tim Cavanaugh's op/ed piece on the James Joyce estate's recent settlement with Stanford prof Carol Loeb Shloss makes really good points about intellectual property in the 21st century.