<OT> What If?

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
% Actually, this sort of points out some fundamental differences between 
% print and electronic publishers.  Print publishers have spent the last 
% twenty years working to invalidate "Fair Use".  Electronic ones (software, 
% music, film) wrote guarantees of our rights to it in their DMCA--and now 
% are working to eliminate the means to actually USE those rights.

I don't see the difference, frankly, between print publishers working
to eliminate fair use and electronic publishers working to prevent
fair use. Any, in any event, the DMCA hardly strikes me as a guarantee
of my rights to fair use, but I haven't read it cover to cover, either.

Kurt
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