| Florian Cramer on Fri, 12 May 2000 13:50:28 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Napster Hurts Free Software |
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:37:37PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > I see that for you, as well as Bruce, it boils down to an issue of > proper respect for intellectual property. This insistence led Bruce > to make a bunch of groundless arguments about the deleterious effect > of music piracy on Free Software. Are you preparing to do the same > thing? No, not at all. His political argument is quietist; it boils down to dismissing civil disobedience because it could provoke governmental oppression. The opposite position, i.e. mixing Free Software on the one hand and Napster + mp3 warez in the same bag, is equally questionable. Florian -- Florian Cramer, PGP public key ID 6440BA05 Permutations/Permutationen - poetry automata from 330 A.D. to present: <http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/index.cgi> _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold