From owner-freebsd-chat  Tue May 22 11:16:55 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C040537B42C
	for <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from brett@lariat.org)
Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2])
	by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01871;
	Tue, 22 May 2001 12:16:17 -0600 (MDT)
Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010522120432.04599e20@localhost>
X-Sender: brett@localhost
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:08:50 -0600
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Copyright law, again...
Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <20010522181937.I51400@lpt.ens.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-chat.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-chat>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-chat>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

At 10:19 AM 5/22/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>The chapter excerpted above is one of the strongest indictments of the
>current copyright situation I have ever read.  Even Stallman doesn't
>get into the guts of today's system and savage it the way she does:

You are misrepresenting Ms. Littman's position. Her indictment is not 
of copyright law per se but rather of the extreme positions taken by
the combatants in the current content wars. Stallman, and others like
him, have forced copyright holders to take extreme measures to ensure
that they continue to receive revenue from what is rightfully theirs.

--Brett Glass


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message