IP: Dan Gillmor: Entertainment industry's copyright fight puts consumers in cross hairs

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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putting us in chains djf


Dan Gillmor: Entertainment industry's copyright fight puts consumers
in cross hairs

By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist

If the business people who rule the entertainment industry had been
as powerful 25 years ago as they are today, you'd be breaking the law
if you set your videocassette recorder to tape your favorite Olympic
event for later viewing. The VCR, assuming the entertainment industry
would have allowed a manufacturer to sell it, would not have a
fast-forward button because it would let you skip through the
commercials without viewing them.

As for tape recorders, you would not have been able to make a copy of
the music you just bought so you could play it in your car.

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