full-disclosure - Re: This is when piracy/theft become expression of freedom

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:44:09 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: "Byron L. Sonne" <byron.sonne@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: This is when piracy/theft become expression
	of freedom

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:18:59 EST, "Byron L. Sonne" said:

> I'm sure if the copyright lobby had their way, they'd require us to wear
> special glasses in order to see our laptop screens, on the assumption
> that anything not explicitly licensed was assumed to be unlicensed, and
> thus pirated, which we would be blocked from our field of view... and as
> a result, some girl/guy who wants to write a simple freeware text editor
> now has to jump through regulatory hoops and spend money to obtain a
> special registration that allows their text editor to display to the
> screen. This is a cheesy example, but I think it makes the point.

Stallman was about 15 years ahead of you: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

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