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It is said that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. In the case of the copyright industry, they have learned that they can get new monopoly benefits and rent-seeker’s benefits every time there is a new technology, if they just complain loudly enough to the legislators.

la capacité de la nouvelle technique à porter des formes d’écriture originales, libérées des contraintes imposées, à la fois par la morphologie du codex et par le régime juridique du copyright. Cette écriture polyphonique et palimpseste, ouverte et malléable, infinie et mouvante, bouscule les catégories qui, depuis le xviiie siècle, sont le fondement de la propriété littéraire, de toutes les pratiques et habitudes de lecture.

When it comes to copyright theft and piracy, many people assume there's just one side - the side of truth, justice and copyright owners. Beyond that there are parasitical thieves. When most governments come to legislate on the matter, their response is usually one of listening to what big corporations and lobby groups say and nodding in agreement. For the general public, years of being bombarded by cross platform marketing campaigns have ingrained people with various "Piracy bad. Copyright good" slogans.

I'm not sure about the idea that information is the same as a thing – so if you give it away, you don't have it anymore. A banana is worth a dollar, you give it away and you don't have it anymore.

So I would submit that a copyright system optimized for the Networked World must be able to meet these very high speed and scale requirements, whether we like it or not.

Of course this culture of copying has affected the creative process. One lovely side-effect is that high-end designers find themselves challenged to create truly innovative and surprising designs that they believe will be hard to knock-off.

The trade in technical literature was so strong that publishers constantly worried about having a large enough supply, and this situation gave even the less talented scientific authors a good bargaining position in relation to publishers.