napster: civil disobedience re: copyright laws

[Ken Brown]

Steve Schear posted:

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> 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.

Ken