napster: civil disobedience re: copyright laws

[Steve Schear]

At 12:01 PM 6/19/2001 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
>Steve Schear posted:
>
>[...]
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> > ================================================
> >  From http://webserver.law.yale.edu/censor/samuelson.htm
>
>[...]
>
> > Far more harmonious was the relationship between
> > copyright and censorship in that era. Men burned at the stake for writing
> > texts that were critical of the Crown or of established religion. The
> > stationers' copyright regime was part of the apparatus aimed at ensuring
> > that these texts would not be printed or otherwise be widely accessible to
> > the public.
>
>Which men, in England, were burned at the stake for "burned at the stake
>for writing
>texts that were critical of the Crown"?
>
>Decapitated maybe, but not burned at the stake... definite revisionist
>history in the making here.

You'll have to take this up with Pam, as this was quoted from her material.

steve