IP: The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
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> The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival
> By JOHN MARKOFF
> The New York Times
>
> While American courts struggle over the recording industry's challenge to
> digital music swapping, Ian Clarke, a 23-year-old Irish programmer, is moving
> on to the next battleground. He is finishing a program that he says will make
> it impossible to control the traffic in any kind of digital information --
> whether it is music, video, text or software.
>
> His program, known as Freenet, is intended to make it possible to acquire or
> exchange such material anonymously while frustrating any attempt to remove the
> information from the Internet or determine its source.
>
> Mr. Clarke and his group of programmers have deliberately set themselves on a
> collision course with the world's copyright laws. They express the hope that
> the clash over copyright enforcement in cyberspace will produce a world in
> which all information is freely shared. In any case, the new programs could
> change the basic terms of the discussion about intellectual property.
>
> <snip>
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> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles/10digital.html
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