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The Copyright Elephant

It’s all about The Copyright Elephant

Maybe their mantra should have been, “Sue the pirates, not Joe six-pack [me] or the technology creators.” This would be more in line with reality… that is, the major labels are going down and it’s not about plugging as many holes as possible, it’s about picking the largest piece of the broken boat that will not sink in the near term. This is why they should embrace digital distribution wholeheartedly and spend all those litigation dollars on finding where the added value should be now that the world has changed out from under them…

Patrick, why do you bring up that quote? Yes, I left out the first half of the sentence – but how does that affect about what I said?

From http://www.eff.org/share/

“It’s time to face the fact that copyright law currently is broken [...] If we all band together and stand up for our rights, we can change the law.”

Well, I don’t Barlow was necessarily speaking to that – he was more addressing the CL and public utility proposals at the conference, and other sort of gov’t intervention on behalf o file sharing.

Hello? Copyrights are a creation of the Government since they spring from Consititutional Powers bestowed upon Congress. Silly Libertarians.