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[Fsfe-france] Interview John Perry Barlow
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Alexandre Dulaunoy |
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[Fsfe-france] Interview John Perry Barlow |
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Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:31:29 +0100 (CET) |
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/14337/1.html
Could you express a bit more widely your thoughts about copy
protection and informational sustainability? I mean, today we still
have a lot of books, and they can be read for centuries. What about
the digital world?
John Perry Barlow: This is one of my greatest concerns. I am
really afraid that a lot of material that is already in the
Public Domain is going to be re-encapsulated and taken out of the
Public Domain. I'm also very afraid that they are going to refuse
to digitize -- or are only digitizing in this highly controlled
way -- much of what has taken place over the last 150 years. And
that, as a consequence, this will die embedded in their corpses
and be lost to future generations. I'm disappointed with the
human species that we are less concerned about that than we are
about strengthening a monopoly for a very few large
organizations. We're given this choice. Why are we choosing to
help them instead of our descendants?
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