CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?

Tom Vogt tom at ricardo.de
Tue Oct 17 05:30:10 PDT 2000


Nathan Saper wrote:
> Even if they do (which I haven't heard of, but I could be wrong), the
> trend right now is more corporate power, less governmental power.  As
> I said before, we are already seeing this trend, what with
> corporations able to circumvent countries' environmental codes and
> whatnot.  It will only get worse.

it is not corporations *ignoring* government powers (or "circumventing"
them, what a nice term in light of DMCA). it is corporations using
government as their executive branch.

take a look at DMCA, take a look at the european proposal I have in my
hands (gotta search that link, it's document # 9512/00) - tell me they
were NOT written by corporate lawyers.





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