From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 23 13:29:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B0B37B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 13:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@well.com) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:root@z.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.71]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4NKTBh17183; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:29:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA14652; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:29:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14648; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:29:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:29:10 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard X-Sender: howardjp@z.glue.umd.edu To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright law, again... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523121004.050bea20@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 23 May 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. This proves nothing. Which was my point to begin with. This claim is completely unverifiable until you find Valenti saying "Stallman is such a jerk, we need to do something to get even with him." Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message