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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2001 12:12:12 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Copyright law, again...
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105231401200.1746-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
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At 12:02 PM 5/23/2001, James Howard wrote:

>The DCMA is simply a corporate power grab.  It would have happened with or
>without the Free Software Foundation.

I do not believe that it would have happened, or contained the provisions
it did, were it not for Napster, Stallman, Barlow, and others who rallied
consumers to use the Internet to grab content without paying. The same
is true of UCITA. The war was escalated, and both sides took extreme
positions.

--Brett Glass


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