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It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly

Rick Falkvinge’s first article on TechDirt. I know there are some people in the Pirate movement who has things to say about Rick’s lack of people skills and that his sudden urges to oppose paradigms sometimes conflicts with long-term policy and strategy, but for one am a sucker for people who thinks for themselves and speak their minds with clarity such as this:

“I reject and oppose this monopoly that was never for the creators, but always for the distributors: a guild whose time is up and obsolete, and which has no business trampling on our civil liberties.”