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Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions
Zeta writes "The answers are finally in! Stanford's Lawrence Lessig and the RIAA's Matt Oppenheim have responded to all the tough questions on copyrighted music, many from Slashdot readers, for the online part of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Take a look - some of the responses may surprise you." We ran the original call for questions a few weeks back.
Interviewer: Doing this specific activity breaks the law. Right?
P2P-lover: Well, only insofar as the law is evil and wrong.
RIAA: Yes! You will all be sent to the Underworld!
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Interviewer: I want to be able to do anything I want. What do you think?
P2P-lover: Sure, why should I care?
RIAA: No! We demand your cash in retribution!
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Is there a *single* interview question here that asks an interesting question, or one that there's any question about the answer to? P2P person says that anything that stifles the free flow of information is bad. RIAA person says that anything that allows people to make illegal copies of music is bad. RIAA person makes no comments about whether the current copyright situation is for the benefit of the people of America or not, P2P person doesn't mention minor details like, say, what's actually legal.
I'm trying to see where the story is.
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Cool. We can all listen to the marvelous 'techno' music downloadable for free on mp3.com. I think my nephew has some there. We're subjected to it every time we visit. For a few minutes.
BTW, you're full of shit regarding 'intellectual property being a total fiction of law.' But it's not worth arguing if you're lame enough to make such an absurd assertion. We'll just let you play in the street and hope the mess when that copyright lawyer's SUV hits you doesn't make too big a mark on the pavement.
You just said 'Fuck You' to the FSF and the GPL, by the way, though you'll not understand....