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psutton wrote:
I think we should support anti piracy legislation BUT try and suggest something that will still benefit all of us.
The FSF aren't keen on the term piracy. Creates the wrong impression, in piracy people got killed, during the stealing of something from someone else, making the other person poorer. It's a bit different from licence infringements, that merely fail to make the licence holder more money.
If we are seen as against this legislation 100% we seen as condoning piracy, which will just work against us, so we need something in the middle of the two, be anti piracy but pro free choice and expression.
Legislation that seeks to place mandatory controls on copying requires you abandon your current rights under copyright to fair use (and backup). Isn't it enough to point out that this legislation assaults your existing freedoms? Imagine you couldn't copy your CD's to MP3, have you bought the rights to listen to the song, or merely to own the CD? What about when CD players are no longer made? I happen to think it is technically unworkable to restrict copying as well. Those old enough to remember will recognise the industry screams about licence infringements, and how blank audio tapes should be taxed and the proceeds passed to the recording industry etc. If we believed what they said last time, they wouldn't be here now to protest. At the time technical solutions were proposed and abandoned. It is worth remembering that copyright was created to protect the author not the publishing industry, indeed the whole publishing industry is an unintended spin off of copyright laws. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.