Comments on: DeCSS and (My) Radicalization http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/07/23/decss-and-my-radicalization/ data, copyright, photography, not necessarily in that order Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Interprete » 1998 and the Irish Accent is Why I study F/OSS http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/07/23/decss-and-my-radicalization/comment-page-1/#comment-18764 Interprete » 1998 and the Irish Accent is Why I study F/OSS Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:17:40 +0000 http://fredbenenson.com/blog/?p=612#comment-18764 [...] Benenson, Free Culture rabble rouser, wrote a retrospective, noting how DeCSS radicalized him, with apologies to MLK (you sill just have to read to see why he is apologizing, it is [...] [...] Benenson, Free Culture rabble rouser, wrote a retrospective, noting how DeCSS radicalized him, with apologies to MLK (you sill just have to read to see why he is apologizing, it is [...]

]]> By: leesean http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/07/23/decss-and-my-radicalization/comment-page-1/#comment-17541 leesean Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:50:58 +0000 http://fredbenenson.com/blog/?p=612#comment-17541 I agree with Don Marti. Those in favor of anticircumvention and over-extension of IP "rights" are the true radicals. Replace "radicalize a generation of free software developers and enthusiasts" with something like "galvanized the political consciousness of..." They connected the dots: Speech is political. Code is speech. Thus code is political. I agree with Don Marti. Those in favor of anticircumvention and over-extension of IP “rights” are the true radicals.

Replace “radicalize a generation of free software developers and enthusiasts” with something like “galvanized the political consciousness of…” They connected the dots: Speech is political. Code is speech. Thus code is political.

]]> By: Don Marti http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2009/07/23/decss-and-my-radicalization/comment-page-1/#comment-17435 Don Marti Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:32:24 +0000 http://fredbenenson.com/blog/?p=612#comment-17435 I hate to break it to you, but you're not the radical here. Extremist expansion of copyright, and the growth of meta-copyright ideas such as anticircumvention, is the radical idea. If you really explain it to most people, they don't like it any more than mandatory quartering of soldiers in private homes in time of peace. The anti-DMCA side, which grows out of a long tradition of copyright as balance, is the conservative side. I hate to break it to you, but you’re not the radical here.

Extremist expansion of copyright, and the growth of meta-copyright ideas such as anticircumvention, is the radical idea. If you really explain it to most people, they don’t like it any more than mandatory quartering of soldiers in private homes in time of peace. The anti-DMCA side, which grows out of a long tradition of copyright as balance, is the conservative side.

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