arstechnica.com — If there are two sides to every story, the Digital Freedom Campaign hopes to balance the RIAA's message on copyright by educating students about alternative views on copyright and fair use while teaching them how they can fight back against the RIAA.
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zachpruckowskiApr 2, 2007
Maybe not, but fair use shouldn't be a casualty of the war between the RIAA/MPAA and their customers.
hackwrenchApr 2, 2007
Write congressional aides for bills or riders in essence and piece by piece revoking the DMCA and retroactively shortening copyright terms. It worked for the president for that out of session attorney apointment thing and if the Supreme court said that retroactively lengthening copyright terms is legal then retroactively shortening them most certainly is.Better yet, become a congressional aide and write the bill/riders yourself.
hackwrenchApr 2, 2007
The "seller", or more accurately copyright holders and their designees have much less right to own music than all other property. Congress is clearly constitutionally permitted to completely abolish all intellectual property rights. Not so with other properties.
lukeesntlpdxApr 2, 2007
The "*IAA" is not restricting something like food, water, or air, it's entertainment and you don't need it to survive. It's something for your own enjoyability and a company needs to make money in exchange for the costs required to produce that entertainment. Students may not have much disposable income but there's no way you can justify illegally downloading digital content by saying you have no money for it but then going and spending $100 on a new pair of jeans. - If you want to watch movies and listen to music you should buy a cheaper pair of jeans and contribute to the entertainment you buy. This is how the world works. Just because something is 'easy' to get from the internet that doesn't make it right.
pixelbasicApr 2, 2007
All your property are belong to us! Yeah you don't need those property rights anyway.
Closed AccountApr 2, 2007
I rather NOT have it. I don't download, buy or listen to paid music. I just turn on the radio. ITS FREE
wordletApr 3, 2007
Um..He said you shouldn't be able to distribute music over the internet..For a lot of artists (Actually the majority) the internet is the only way for them to get their music out to the world. Hopefully this Digitial Freedom Campaign is going to support such artists and advise the students to use those until the record companies stop making buying a song with DRM equivalent to taking it up the ass.
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