Re: copyright under stress

On 27/05/2000, Kevin Grierson" <kgrierson[_at_]wilsav.com> wrote:
>
> Gnutella and Napster are giving us all the opportunity to steal,
> and I guess we're finding out now how few honest men there really
> are in our society today.

The above comment is so gratuitously offensive, I feel compelled to respond in kind. (Forgive the indulgence!)

Copyright's exploitation of entirely artificial scarcity is nothing less than economic censorship. Worse, the application of copyright amounts to appropriation from the commons -- theft from the public -- and those who uphold it and defend it are participating in a crime against civilisation (albeit one which will shortly become impossible to sustain). Copyright has no redeeming features, except perhaps its vulnerability to technological solutions.

Of course, that's only the way I see it.

CYa,
JEREMY Jeremy G. Byrne
<jeremy[_at_]iz.org> Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 10:50:30 GMT