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Stephen Downes

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Glyn Moody writes, "A central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) and this blog is that the copyright industry is never satisfied. Now matter how long the term of copyright, publishers and recording companies want more." Thus their latest land grab: the internet's core routers. Writes Moody: "it's a terrible precedent. It means that blocking – and thus censorship – can be applied automatically, possibly without judicial oversight, to some of the most fundamental parts of the Internet's plumbing." Needless to say I think that this would be a bad idea.

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