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Old May 1st, 2004
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Note that I'm not opposed to the principles of DRM, if this is used reasonnably to lower the cost of acquisition of legal products, and if there's a way to buy a freely redistributable copy of a copyrighted material.
Also we could campaign to have limited time for these copyrights. After which the licence could become free.
Providers or copyrighted materials must learn to trust their customers to keep them. Too many products are sold at too much high prices. And shamely the current concentration of producers into large "majors" will not help defend the public interest, unless the anti-trust laws are applied to keep a concurrential market.
Giants like Universal, AOL/TimeWarner, Disney, Microsoft, Sony an EMI are getting too strong. They are building anti-concurrential strategies of practices.
And artists are in danger: these companies are firing lots of artists around the world and are invading the place normaly reserved to distributors (radios, TVs, ...) which traditionnally were independant when choosing the content they want to braodcast to their auditors.
This means much less choice for the consumer... So file sharing must be kept legal to allow independant artists and producers to get an audience face to the big ones$$$.
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