Anyone who doesn't want to live as a hunter-gatherer.
The question is rarely "bureaucracy or no bureaucracy?", it's "what type of oversight is appropriate in this situation?".
Now, in the case of managing the internets, I'll note that it's been in the news lately. First sentence:
The US government has awarded net overseeing organisation ICANN the contract to administer changes at the top of the internet until 2011.
you are the media you consume.
I have no previous knowledge of James Boyle, but the blurb at the bottom of the article says:
The writer is professor of law at Duke Law School, a co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and a board member of Creative Commons
I get the impression that the author is trying to sow little seeds of thinking differently about intellectual property among readers of Financial Times, without having them dismiss him as a raving commie lunatic.
(Personally I think the GNU General Public License is even better than sliced bread.)
