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"Six years after this battle began, we're still explaining. We're still explaining and we are losing. They frame this as a massive battle to stop theft, to protect property. They don't get why rearchitecting the network destroys innovation and creativity. They extend copyrights perpetually. They don't get how that in itself is a form of theft. A theft of our common culture."
-Lawrence Lessig

"The industry insists that its customers bow to copyright holders' absolute control over how buyers may use what they've bought. It demands a veto on innovation with entirely benign uses, if that innovation might also be used to infringe. And it sneers at the bargain that copyright holders once made with society -- a deal that would reward creativity while constantly refilling the well of public knowledge and art."
-Dan Gillmor

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