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Subject: Re: Laudamus te

Author:
Bobben

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Date Posted: 14:33:39 12/07/03 Sun
In reply to: John A. 's message, "Re: Laudamus te" on 14:16:21 11/17/03 Mon

>Thanks again, Bobben. I think I am beginning to see
>the point, I suppose it is essentially what we used to
>call "copyright". I am not much into sport, and slow
>to understand the commercial angle. I might watch
>England vs Australia on Saturday if it were free, not
>otherwise.
>
>One of the tricks from a UK standpoint since the 1980s
>has been to make people pay for what once used to be
>free at the point of use. When a monopoly is a private
>company with profit as its objective, not a public
>organisation provinding public service, we should ask
>how the private company assumes ownership in the first
>place. In may cases it simply stole what once belonged
>to everybody, and is now charging them to get it back.

This story just undelines how complicated copyrights issues are:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds12600.html

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Re: Laudamus te	John A.	00:29:32 12/08/03 Mon