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New Scientology Video -- and the Death of Copyright?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:49:22 -0800
________________________________________ From: Lauren Weinstein [lauren () vortex com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:29 PM To: David Farber Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: New Scientology Video -- and the Death of Copyright? Greetings. Over on my blog I've just posted an entry regarding a fascinating and bizarre new Scientology video that has just surfaced on YouTube, outlining plans for "the global obliteration of psychiatry" ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000368.html ). This is of course the second Scientology vid to pop up recently, the first being the now infamous Tom Cruise interview. We can bet that Scientology will move rapidly to issue take-down orders to YouTube and that at least the initial copies will vanish there quickly -- but we all know that once out of the bottle such materials will circulate publicly forever. All the king's horses and all of L. Ron Hubbard's men won't be able to regain control over that video again. But this is simply one example relating to a much broader and extremely important question. Given the widespread public availability of effectively unlimited disk space, vast communications capabilities, powerful encryption, and related technologies, is the very concept of copyright (as we've known it up until now) rapidly sliding toward the dustbin of utter obsolescence, despite desperate attempts at life support? Something to think about. More to come. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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