From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:46:38 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Clean up XML. X-Git-Tag: edition-2015-10-10~2535 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/commitdiff_plain/7dc8e1527f2c58ec5394ab8a73e89261fcf8baa2?ds=sidebyside Clean up XML. --- diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 787ad5f..2fbc959 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -3530,14 +3530,13 @@ Nothing has changed to draw that law into doubt. This form of piracy is flat out wrong. -But as the examples from the four chapters that introduced this -part suggest, even if some piracy is plainly wrong, not all "piracy" is. Or -at least, not all "piracy" is wrong if that term is understood in the way -it is increasingly used today. Many kinds of "piracy" are useful and - productive, -to produce either new content or new ways of doing business. -Neither our tradition nor any tradition has ever banned all "piracy" in -that sense of the term. +But as the examples from the four chapters that introduced this part +suggest, even if some piracy is plainly wrong, not all "piracy" is. Or +at least, not all "piracy" is wrong if that term is understood in the +way it is increasingly used today. Many kinds of "piracy" are useful +and productive, to produce either new content or new ways of doing +business. Neither our tradition nor any tradition has ever banned all +"piracy" in that sense of the term. This doesn't mean that there are no questions raised by the latest @@ -3784,14 +3783,12 @@ U.S. Congress, Copyright and Home Copying, 4. But just because the industry was wrong before does not mean it is wrong today. To evaluate the real threat that p2p sharing presents to -the industry in particular, and society in general—or at least the - society -that inherits the tradition that gave us the film industry, the record -industry, the radio industry, cable TV, and the VCR—the question is -not simply whether type A sharing is harmful. The question is also how -harmful type A sharing is, and how beneficial the other types of - sharing -are. +the industry in particular, and society in general—or at least +the society that inherits the tradition that gave us the film +industry, the record industry, the radio industry, cable TV, and the +VCR—the question is not simply whether type A sharing is +harmful. The question is also how harmful type A sharing is, and how +beneficial the other types of sharing are. We start to answer this question by focusing on the net harm, from @@ -13032,7 +13029,7 @@ These statements are astonishing on a number of levels. First, they are just flat wrong. As I described, most open source and free software relies fundamentally upon the intellectual property -right called "copyright." Without it, restrictions imposed by those +right called "copyright". Without it, restrictions imposed by those licenses wouldn't work. Thus, to say it "runs counter" to the mission of promoting intellectual property rights reveals an extraordinary gap in understanding—the sort of mistake that is excusable in a