[DMCA-Activists] Activism and NY Copyright Stakeholders vs NY Fair Use

[Seth Finkelstein]

        I would like to submit the following thought for consideration
to those who are reflexively attacking the disputants:

        If you sneer at injustice when it faces you, how in the world
can you expect anyone else to respect your activism?

        This is a very deep, serious, question. If you say, "Get a life
you losers! Shut up! Go away!", then what do you say to anyone who
then turns around and says to *you*, about the DMCA, "Get a life you
losers! Shut up! Go away!". After all, the RIAA works very hard to
portray the DMCA opposition as a bunch of kiddie thieves who are upset
that they can't steal from artists, and need to grow up and stop
whining about not being able be freeloaders.

        Simplistically flaming both parties simply helps the one who
has done wrong. It doesn't aid the cause in any way.

        The NY Copyright Stakeholders vs NY Fair Use argument is a bunch
of *"intellectual property"* charges. There is supreme irony in that.

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