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RE: Slagging Over Sagging CD Sales




> It's not news that the IP
> industry wants to control what we can do with "their" content. It is news
> that slowly there are begining to be reasonable voices raised against the
> industry's attempts to change law and technology to limit use to
> the uses IP owners consider legitimate.

No, it isn't.  Reasonable people have been disagreeing over this issue in
print and online for years.  The discussion is enriched when such people
present their (and others') arguments in a fair-minded and balanced way.  We
need to do less preaching to the choir and more serious thinking about this
issue.

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