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Originally Posted by rationalbiker
Your 'pro-freedom' stance doesn't include the freedom (the right) of the producers/owners to distribute THEIR property in a manner they choose free from theft and leeching. Their freedom doesn't matter I suppose.
Clever trying to associate the word freedom with your position, but wholly misleading and inaccurate.
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Have you read Lessig’s
Free Culture? The full book is available on-line under a CC license, so you should give it a read if you haven’t. I’m specifically thinking of his discussion of free vs. permission cultures. He’s primarily concerned with the much deeper issue of creativity and the availability of freely appropriable cultural capital, but invoking an author’s right to
control their work – not just make a living off of it – pushes things in that direction.
But ok, I really just glibly picked a positive-sounding name to preempt being called “pro-piracy”
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