Would You Like Freedom Fries With That?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. roseg: Would You Like Freedom Fries With That?, randomselections December 13, 2005

The point of this item - with which I am in sympathy - is that not only is copyright expanding, but its increasingly pervasive nature is becoming a medium for social control. To think of where copyright has gone in the last decade or so, "Imagine buying a bed and being told that you were only licensed to use it for yourself". More...