Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:12:12 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright law, again... Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523121004.050bea20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105231401200.1746-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523114809.050d03e0@localhost>
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At 12:02 PM 5/23/2001, James Howard wrote: >The DCMA is simply a corporate power grab. It would have happened with or >without the Free Software Foundation. I do not believe that it would have happened, or contained the provisions it did, were it not for Napster, Stallman, Barlow, and others who rallied consumers to use the Internet to grab content without paying. The same is true of UCITA. The war was escalated, and both sides took extreme positions. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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