[P2P-F] the last chance for copyright

[Michel Bauwens]

institutions and laws have a very long latency factor ...

consider that now the overall majority of all citizens, all age groups and
democrats/republicans alike, are in favour of the legalization of marihuana
.. yet it could still take decades before that happens

without willingness to accompany ignoring the law with an active struggle
against it, the same will happen for copyright ..

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:48 PM, ChaTo (Carlos Alberto Alejandro CASTILLO
Ocaranza) <chato at chato.cl> wrote:

>  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:
>
> =============================================================
> 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.
> =============================================================
>
> 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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