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The RIAA and French Button-Makers

Posted by kdawson on from the before-buggy-whips dept.

Alien54 writes "Requiring permission to innovate? Feeling entitled to search others' property? Getting the power to act like law enforcement in order to fine or arrest those who are taking part in activities that challenge your business model? Don't these all sound quite familiar? Centuries from now (hopefully much, much sooner), the actions of the RIAA, MPAA and others that match these of the weavers and button-makers of 17th century France will seem just as ridiculous."

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  1. Re:Bad analogy by Headcase88 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Agreed. The button-makers seemed to cause more of a patent-style problem than copyright. But it has been a few hours since /. posted an article about **IA, so they needed to find something.

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