From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 22 20:15:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F22337B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 20:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57631 invoked by uid 100); 23 May 2001 03:15:41 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15115.11101.190385.187172@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:15:41 -0500 To: James Howard Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright law, again... In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010522120432.04599e20@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James Howard types: > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > > > 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. > > In the case of Napster and friends, I can see this, but I see no > justification for Stallman pushing others to stronger measures. Can you > clarify and support this? Of course he can't, he's just demoniziong Stallman so he can have somebody eevil to blame for these things. If you examine the situation with a cool head, you'll realize that publishers have been trying to extract extra revenue from the public for even longer, starting at least as early as the extension of copyright in the first quarter of the century. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message