piracy.
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm><primary>Dreyfuss, Rochelle</primary></indexterm>
<para>
This view runs deep within the current debates. It is what NYU law
professor Rochelle Dreyfuss criticizes as the "if value, then right"
holder's permission. Developing nations may be able to use this to
gain the benefits of foreign patents at lower prices. This is a
promising strategy for developing nations within the TRIPS framework.
+<indexterm><primary>Drahos, Peter</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote> In my view, more developing nations should take
advantage of that opportunity, but when they don't, then their laws
should be respected. And under the laws of these nations, this piracy
loved it, and it sold very well.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Alben, Alex</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Drucker, Peter</primary></indexterm>
<para>
But I pressed Alben about how weird it seems that it would have to
take a year's work simply to clear rights. No doubt Alben had done
See Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Information Feudalism: Who
Owns the Knowledge Economy? (New York: The New Press, 2003), 37.
<indexterm><primary>Braithwaite, John</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Drahos, Peter</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>
</para>
<para>
choice we are now making about intellectual property.<footnote><para>
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See Drahos with Braithwaite, Information Feudalism, 210–20.
+<indexterm><primary>Drahos, Peter</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>
We will have an information society. That much is certain. Our only
choice now is whether that information society will be free or
If we were Achilles, this would be our heel. This would be the place
of our tragedy.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Dylan, Bob</primary></indexterm>
<para>
As I write these final words, the news is filled with stories about
the RIAA lawsuits against almost three hundred individuals.<footnote><para>