Cory Doctorow’s talk at Google
Cory Doctorow (Canadian SF writer, BoingBoing editor, and overall copyright / patent activist) did a presentation at Google about copyright over a background of US Foreign Trade policy. It is a brilliant and informative talk with a lot of interesting questions at the end, and I highly recommend it…
One of the main points he raises is the dangers of living in a society that criminalizes something a large portion of the population does, and draws parallels between US society and Soviet-era Russia. Most people aren’t ever prosecuted for filesharing / black marketeering. But it means that suddenly, you have to tread carefully with those in power — if you do something that they do not like, even if it is not in and of itself illegal, they can choose to enforce something they know you’re doing and hang you.
(via BoingBoing)
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