[P2P-F] the last chance for copyright

Fri Mar 11 14:48:27 CET 2011

Hi,

With respect to the point that copyright may not survive if not reformed 
... a similar thought was expressed by Jessica Litman in "Digital 
Copyright" (2001) -- that's right, 10 years ago:

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As I have watched the copyright wars intensify, however, it has seemed 
to me that consumers' widespread noncompliance offers a very real ray of 
hope. I don't expect large crowds of Napster-deprived citizens to rise 
up in civil disobedience against a law that they perceive as 
unjust--even in the post-Napster world, copyright will not be a hot 
issue. Instead, I expect that most people will continue to ignore a law 
written in barely comprehensible prose that makes no sense whatsoever 
from their point of view. . . People don't obey laws that they don't 
believe in. . .If a law is bad enough, even its proponents might be 
willing to abandon it in favor of a different law that seems more 
legitimate to the people it is intended to command.
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All the best,

On 03/11/2011 02:36 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> http://falkvinge.net/2011/03/11/radical-copyright-monopoly-reform-only-chance-for-copyright-to-survive-at-all/
>
> (hi Chris, I'd like to reproduce this editorial in our blog as well, 
> can you post-date it to march 21 ?)

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