[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

Christian Hufgard pp at christian-hufgard.de
Thu Oct 22 11:52:41 CEST 2009


Hi Richard,

Richard Stallman wrote:
> Copyright holders are a special interest -- a small part of the
> public.  Copyright gives them privileges over everyone else.
> Privileges are generally very beneficial for the beneficiaries.  That
> alone cannot be enough to justify a privilege.

But without copyrights, free software could no longer be protected from
unfree use. Or we'd need a giantic archive with every bit of software ever
produced and massiv punishment, if someone sells software without putting
the sources into that archive.



Christian



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