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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
In context, this quote is about the rights of states, not of individuals.
Having some books/movies/games, to use your scare quotes, "stolen" is inevitable in the digital world, just like in stores. One price for living in human society is that some people will manage to take other people's property, intellectual and otherwise, without their permission. I want to mildly discourage that, and we can discourage it without turning our world into an unfree hell-hole like, oh, say, Jefferson's plantation.
Check out how it works in France, where a free and open internet coexists with a more serious anti-piracy regime (warnings, with eventual possibility of service cutoff) than in most other countries. There was talk of the new socialist government repealing the anti-piracy law, but based on details found here, they are keeping it. This is about what seems in store for the US, and I don't see where my freedom of expression, or freedom to read, will be harmed. |
thats awesome for france. but we have a government that thinks spy drones over our houses and everything we do online being run through the n.s.a. are swell ideas. i refuse to give this government another bloody inch. there is nothing "free and open" left here besides the internet and if that means some author somewhere might lose a few dollars, so be it because i think its a fair trade. my mind isn't going to change on this one.