Definitely disruptive. I realize it's not extremely recent, but I'd still say this disrupts things, not unlike EMI's decision to get out of the RIAA. It's the ideal post that isn't strictly startup-related but is still interesting to hackers. Upvote x2.
This has been out for almost 2 years, it's old news.
Old news -> Olds?
I'm still glad he posted it, because it's new to me.