Re: "Against Intellectual Property"

From: Bryan Taylor <bryan_w_taylor[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:49:03 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Eric Eldred <eldred[_at_]eldritchpress.org> wrote:
>
> Those of you who are not Slashdot readers might not be aware of
> this link,
>
> http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html
>
> "Against Intellectual Property," chapter of a book,
> "Information Liberation," by Brian Martin.

Here's another article in the LA Times with a similar message:

   http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/20000729/t000071270.html

This one's title "Let's Give a Toast to Prohibition, Circa 2000" and it's a response to the Napster situation.

"Whatever the outcome of the recording industry's litigation against Napster, there can be little question that it is a futile rear-guard action. It cannot halt music sharing. The arrival of the Internet and the digital revolution will force us to reexamine basic copyright precepts or watch intellectual property law become as irrelevant and unworkable as Prohibition."

Bryan Taylor
<bryan_w_taylor[_at_]yahoo.com>

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