[free-sklyarov] Libertarian anti-DMCA is fantasy

[Seth Finkelstein]

Nick Moffitt wrote:
> 
> Begin Seth Finkelstein quotation:
> >       By the way, Declan, I'm still waiting to tell me how you
> > reconcile your views with making a living from a government-granted
> > monopoly which punishes people for (too much) speech if someone
> > happens to have said that speech earlier (aka "copyrighted
> > articles").
> 
>         Crap.  I seem to have subscribed to troll-declan at zork.net.
> How do I unsubscribe??!!?!!!!

	Well, I seem to be subscribed to libertarian-trolls, so I
sympathize. There is a serious, serious issue here, of "What Is Property'.
Ranting about how Feinstein is a "socialist" and the Libertarian Party
wouldn't vote for the DMCA (because someone thinks they said that),
is just useless. It does not adress the problem intelligently. It's
proselytizing which will drive away everyone who is not a fanatic.

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Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf at sethf.com  http://sethf.com
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html