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Excerpt from Lessig's Free Culture
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posted by scubacuda
on Thursday March 11, @01:50AM
from the dept.
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In the latest issue of Wired, there is an excerpt from Lessig's new book, Free Culture. Right from the get go, he pulls no punches:
"If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy....As the history of film, music, radio, and cable TV suggest, even if some piracy is plainly wrong, not all piracy is. Or at least, not in the sense that the term is increasingly being used today. Many kinds of piracy are useful and productive, either to create new content or foster new ways of doing business. Neither our tradition, nor any tradition, has ever banned all piracy."
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