"We don't need Time Travel to alter History. Now we can alter it directly."

I remembered today that Yesterdayland.com went out of business a little while back, and it took with it the discussions of a whole community of folks that love the past -- specifically the TV culture of the past. Because it was an Internet site, there is now *NO* history of it. An archive of it was created by an individual who decided that $25/a month was too much to keep it accessible. $25 a month to keep a record of history in existence.

So now that we're in the Digital World, and Content Cartels have declared war on so-called Piracy (i.e. unauthorized sharing of someone else's ideas and expressions), have lobbied the American government (which then forces the rest of world) to lengthen ownership rights indefinitely (as if ideas were like land, past on through family or by corporations), how will History itself change?

One need not be a cartel either... there are folks trying to rid all movies of depicting smoking, for fear that kids will see it and start up that habit. Great... so should we go back and replace them in movies of the past too? I'm not by any means in favor of smoking. But I'm not in favor of a lot of things -- that doesn't mean the concept of them, or expressions that include them need to be erased from all time. That very idea of "banning" disturbs me. It keeps popping up though... periodicity.