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| reply to cpuffer
Re: Free Speach in danger I agree. The entire debate, copyright law, DMCA, and now the travesty of CBDTPA is all about the established content companies attempting to use technical and legal means to protect their monopoly over the distribution channel. The Internet is actually a boon to artists since they can directly interact directly with their fans.
It things continue in this direction each of us will have to pay fees for every scrap of information we use, copyright never expires so common heritage stops flowing to the public domain and it will be impossible to self publish.
This is not to say it will be technically impossible, the systems will be vulnerable to circumvention. No, it will be like Prohibition in the 1930's. Everyone will be breaking the law, because the technology will be outlawed it will be a boon for organized crime to deliver illegal devices and everyone will be looking over their shoulder for the Copycops. I don’t think this is the Internet future most of us anticipated. |
