institutions and laws have a very long latency factor ...<br><br>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<br>
<br>without willingness to accompany ignoring the law with an active struggle against it, the same will happen for copyright ..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:48 PM, ChaTo (Carlos Alberto Alejandro CASTILLO Ocaranza) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chato@chato.cl">chato@chato.cl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
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:<br>
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<span>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.</span><br>
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All the best,<div class="im"><br>
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On 03/11/2011 02:36 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://falkvinge.net/2011/03/11/radical-copyright-monopoly-reform-only-chance-for-copyright-to-survive-at-all/" target="_blank">http://falkvinge.net/2011/03/11/radical-copyright-monopoly-reform-only-chance-for-copyright-to-survive-at-all/</a><br>
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(hi Chris, I'd like to reproduce this editorial in our blog as
well, can you post-date it to march 21 ?)<br>
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