[OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on DRM]

[Chirgwin, Richard]

The Knut/Canute and Waves incident is probably misreported anyhow ... it's
likely that a pagan kingship ceremony involved symbolically getting the okay
from a water god(ess); and that later Catholic propagandists rewrote the
tale either (a) from misreading a picture ["Look at this pagain idiot,
trying to turn back the tide!"] or (b) as deliberate denigration of Norse
religious belief...

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Brown [mailto:k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:54
> To: Trei, Peter
> Cc: link@www.anu.edu.au; 'Robin Whittle'; Damien Miller;
> cryptography@wasabisystems.com; cypherpunks@lne.com
> Subject: Re: [OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on
> DRM]
> 
> 
> In the interests of even more pedantry and accuracy can I 
> point out that
> Canute (usually spelled "Knut" these days in solidarity with our Dansk
> brethren :-)  was mostly a king in *Southern* England, living 
> at Bosham
> near Chichester? Though at one point he ruled over all 
> England, Denmark,
> and some of the bits in between as well.
> 
> "Trei, Peter" wrote:
> > 
> > > Robin Whittle[SMTP:rw@firstpr.com.au] wrote:
> > > .
> > [lots of good stuff about the music business clipped]
> > 
> > > I think this is an accurate analysis of a really sad 
> situation.  Like
> > > King Canute, the record companies are devoting most of 
> their thinking
> > > and resources to holding back the tide.
> > >
> > [even more good stuff clipped]
> > 
> > In the interests of pedantry and accuracy, may I point out 
> that Canute
> > did not actually expect to hold back the tide. Canute was 
> an an early
> > Danish king of northern England, living ~995-1035. Like most modern
> > leaders, he was surrounded by yes-men. Unlike them, he did something
> > about it:
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