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echo: locuser
to: Brenton Vettoretti
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1995-03-26 08:21:04
subject: 4 Corners highway

BV> Silly me. I thought if it was "free to air" it would be "free
 BV> to tape" as well :)

  Only if you don't get caught. We have to protect Aunty ABC's
intellectual property.

  Have you ever thought that the concept of "intellectual property" is
not only a contradiction, but an interesting new principle? In other
words, you can own what you think. If I build a wall for someone, it's
their wall. Is the design of the wall mine? Is someone says, "Gee I
like that wall - I'll copy it," is that stealing my intellectual
property? If I make a cheap bumper bar for a Holden, is that stealing 
their intellectual property? What a heap of crap.

  The yanks can see their empire slipping away, and they have hopes of
introducing this concept to Asia. Fat chance. If it's not nailed down,
those bastrards steal it.

  I see the use of the words "intellectual property" as the first step
in a new era of restriction and censorship.

Regards,
Bob
  
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