[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Kevin Carson]

On 2/5/10, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 15:20:31 PM -0600, Kevin Carson (free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>  > free to do so.  What the creator should NOT be able to do is punish,
>  > or use the state to punish, anyone who does NOT voluntarily refrain
>  > from reproducing the content.  That is not part of a level playing
>  > field.

> "Reproducing" as in "making a copy" for themselve or "reproducing" as
>  in copying the same content somewhere else online? There is quite a
>  difference.

Definitely a difference, but not insofar as it affects my principle.
There should be no coercive legal prohibition against reproduction in
either case.

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