On 14, August 1998, Jeremy G. Byrne <jeremy[_at_]iz.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/08/98, Mike Bradley <michael[_at_]vision-soft.com> wrote:
> [in response to Timothy Phillips:]
> >
> > Your moralizing language is way over the top. You're not fighting
> > Satan here. It's just copyright.
>
> Au contraire. The exclusive control of knowledge and expression as
> sanctified in intellectual and industrial property rights legislation
> represents a significant economic impediment to the development of an
> egalitarian global society, and there is no logical excuse for it
> beyond personal and corporate avarice.
>
> Get thee behind us, copyright!
Who in the world wants an egalitarian global society? There will always be inequalities of some sort or other, unless some maniac like Lenin, Mao, or Pol Pot gets to "equalize" us all. I'd rather not, thank you very much.
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Received on Sun Aug 16 1998 - 22:28:47 GMT
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