Canadian Copyright Organization: This Is War Against Consumers
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
Techdirt reports that “One of the key points in William Patry’s excellent new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars is that the big defenders of stronger and stronger copyrights have taken and twisted the semantics around copyright issues to make it sound like a “war.” It’s a “battle” to “protect your property” against “pirates” who want to “steal” it. They’re using rhetoric to turn what is effectively a business model issue into something like a crusade that has nothing to do with reasoned arguments about how to actually “promote the progress” (the key reason for copyright).
