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
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>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.
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>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles/10digital.html
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