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It should read copyright law against parasitism. There is a group of people in this world that want to confiscate other people's work for free. The movement against copyright is part of that.
In my life I have been paid many tens of thousands of dollars for my writing and analysis. I can't afford to do it for free. People can't afford to pay me when they must compete with criminals stealing my effort and giving it away for free.
Did you read the article? Skim it? At least try to understand the points it makes?
I didn't think so. But knee jerk reactions are what's important right?
To quote Lessig as he quotes JC Watts in the last page
"If you are explaining, you are losing." ... It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. Six years after this battle began, we're still explaining. We're still explaining and we are losing. They frame this as a massive battle to stop theft, to protect property. They don't get why rearchitecting the network destroys innovation and creativity. They extend copyrights perpetually. They don't get how that in itself is a form of theft. A theft of our common culture. We have failed in getting them to see what the issues here are and that's why we live in this place where a tradition speaks of freedom and their controls take it away."
Do you really want to join the bumper sticker culture and function on three seconds of information that you think you know? I wasn’t, and consequently this article changed my mind on an important issue.