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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Dan Gillmor responds to Jack Valenti
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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 08:00:33 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506950
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Date: Not supplied
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Dan Gillmor interviewed Jack Valenti[1] last week in his column and did the
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impartial thing, representing Valenti's beliefs as fairly as possible. This
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week, Dan takes Valenti's arguments apart, looking at what Hollywood's agenda
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really entails:
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So the movie and music companies are going back to Congress for another
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helping. They are asking for laws that would force technology innovators to
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restrict the capabilities of devices -- cripple PCs and other machines that
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communicate so they can't make copies the copyright holders don't
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explicitly allow. Amazingly, the entertainment industry also wants
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permission to hack into networks and machines they believe are being used
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to violate copyrights.
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Here is what it all means. To protect a business model and thwart even the
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possibility of infringement, the cartel wants technology companies to ask
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permission before they can innovate. The media giants want to keep
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information flow centralized, to control the new medium as if it's nothing
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but a jazzed-up television. Instead of accepting, as they do today, that a
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certain amount of penny-ante infringement will occur and then going after
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the major-league pirates, they call every act of infringement -- and some
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things that aren't infringement at all -- an act of piracy or stealing.
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Saying it doesn't make it so.
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Link[2] Discuss[3]
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[1] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/4132447.htm
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[2] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4175607.htm
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[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/WDUVXyKf9qUj
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