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Originally posted by Mazer
As the community matures people will move beyond simeple civil disobeidance and take an active part in the development of the laws that affect them. The DMCA won't abolish itself, we'll have to make the push to get rid of it, and more and more the p2p community is becoming a force that could make that push. Until that happens news articles like this one will never address the issues theknife addressed.
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Yes, Mazer.
It takes time for the civil disobedience of millions to develop into political power but the
signs are already there, and the p2p communities are not the only collectives that have started to fight against DMCA.
Academics,
librarians and
civil libertarians are among the groups that have raised their voice against the dragonian measures of DMCA. For the p2p communities, the battle is hardly over until all non-commercial p2p is classified as fair use.
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Originally posted by JackSpratts
yes, the story is old but the venue is new. it helps to remember that what's been around us p2p veterans awhile may be fresh to millions of people trying it out or hearing about it for the first time.
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Yepyep, Jack.
Active and well-informed p2p communities like Napsterites look at things from quite a different perspective than the masses. When the mainstream media starts to change its perception of p2p and question the propaganda fed by the content industries, times are indeed changing.
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hi tg, those avatars are moving faster than hellys!
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It's all Helly's fault.
She and her cool avatars have inspired me to start playing with them too...
- tg
