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Open Market on Digg

Open Market.org (the Competitive Enterprise Institute blog) disects the argumen that the Digg affair is "an online Boston Tea Party":

Digg users posting HD-DVD encryption keys is no Boston Tea party. These rogue digg users are referencing a proprietary code, which is not their property, and they’re using a private website, which is also not their property. This attack on private property is more like an online October Revolution. The people at Digg can exercise control over their own property, while the users claim that controlling a private site is equivalent to theft. (They should read What’s Yours is Mine). It all smacks of Marxism to me.

posted by James DeLong @ 7:48 AM | DRM & Watermarks, etc.

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James:

You are either disingenous, or technicaly uninformed.

The key is just a number. Nothing more, nothing less. It is NOT COMPUTER CODE as anyone who prtends to comment of this issue should know.

You need a program to make the number work.

Since you are throughing around politically charged words, rather unfairly, let me do the same:

The attempted supression of my First Amendment rights, that is to simply say something, is FASCISM. And it deserves to be fought with every bit of vigor, resolve, and determination that those who loved fredom we fought the NAZIS and the ITALIAN FASCISTS.

Posted by: enigma_foundry at May 5, 2007 2:11 PM

I don't get it. Isn't he conceding that both the colonists and the Digg users "attacked private property?" So what's the difference?

Posted by: Tim at May 5, 2007 9:14 PM

So when is PFF going to grow up and help us work towards alternative copyright laws that the community is actually willing to live by?

Posted by: Peter Eckersley at May 7, 2007 8:10 PM
 
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