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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Book publisher Tim O'Reilly sketches the major premises of the open content movement. For a content creator, argues O'Reilly, obscurity is a much greater threat than piracy. Indeed, we should think of piracy as a form of progressive taxation, a means of allowing a much wider range of content to be available to people of much lesser means.

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