Re:Book Piracy as Peer Preservation
by unicornporn on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @12:17PM
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"We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter. There is no matter here."[1]
When I read comments like yours I can't help missing the early visionaries of the cyberspace.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter. There is no matter here."[1]
When I read comments like yours I can't help missing the early visionaries of the cyberspace.
[1] https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence