author - "Richard M. Stallman"
asingly set up to give absentee operators control over the peopleactually using the computer system.The SPA, which actually stands for Software Publisher's Association,is not today an official police force. Unofficially, it acts likeone. It invites people to inform on their coworkers and friends; likethe Clinton Administration, it advocates a policy of collectiveresponsibility whereby computer owners must actively enforce copyrightor be punished. The SPA is currently threatening small Internet
hors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. The copyright system was created expressly for the purpose of encouraging authorship. In the domain for which it was invented--books, which could be copied economically only on a printing press--it did little harm, and did not obstruct most of the individuals who read the books.All intellectual property rights are just licenses granted by society because it was
asingly set up to give absentee operators control over the peopleactually using the computer system.The SPA, which actually stands for Software Publisher's Association,is not today an official police force. Unofficially, it acts likeone. It invites people to inform on their coworkers and friends; likethe Clinton Administration, it advocates a policy of collectiveresponsibility whereby computer owners must actively enforce copyrightor be punished. The SPA is currently threatening small Internet
hors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. The copyright system was created expressly for the purpose of encouraging authorship. In the domain for which it was invented--books, which could be copied economically only on a printing press--it did little harm, and did not obstruct most of the individuals who read the books.All intellectual property rights are just licenses granted by society because it was