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Re: [dvd-discuss] Slashdot interview with Lessig
- To: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Slashdot interview with Lessig
- From: microlenz(at)earthlink.net
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:03:04 -0800
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Actually there is another group out there...public indifference to
copyright. Macauley wrote of it in 1861. When the public becomes
totally indifferent to copyright-copyright will be over. A wonderful
system killed by the greed of copyright holders. As with Hamlet the
question is "to be or not to be..."
> Slashdot has just published the answers to readers' questions to
> professor Lessig: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/21/155221
>
> Lessig states, among other things:
>
> "The DMCA as a whole won't be struck down - ever. But I continue to
> believe that at least the parts that disable the use and deployment of
> technologies to protect traditional fair use will eventually fall. At
> least they will fall if litigation about them could continue. But
> notice again: the only group out there supporting this litigation
> (Felten and 2600) is EFF, and EFF's resources are, surprise surprise,
> limited."
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mikael
>
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