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I Am Big Supporter Of The Idea Of A Global Anti-corruption Movement - But One That Begins By Recognizing That The Architecture Of Corruption Is Different In Different Countries. The Corruption We Suffer Is Not The Same As The Corruption That Debilitates Africa. But It Is Both Corruption, And Both Need To Be Eliminated If The Faith In Democracy Is Not Going To Be Destroyed.

But It Is As Silly To Think About Peer-to-peer As Applying Just To Music As It Would Have Been To Think About The Internet As Applying Just To Pornography. Whatever The Initial Use Of The Technology, It Has Nothing To Do With The Potential Of The Architecture To Serve Many Other Extremely Important Functions.

Why Should It Be That Just When Technology Is Most Encouraging Of Creativity, The Law Should Be Most Restrictive?

The Crystal Ball Has A Question Mark In Its Center. There Are Some Fundamental Choices To Be Made. We Will Either Choose To Continue To Wage A Hopeless War To Preserve The Existing Architecture For Copyright By Upping The Stakes And Using Better Weapons To Make Sure That People Respect It. If We Do This, Public Support For Copyright Will Continue To Weaken, Pushing Creativity Underground And Producing A Generation That Is Alienated From The Copyright Concept.

Permission From The Government Is An Expensive Commodity. New Ideas Rarely Have This Kind Of Support. Old Ideas Often Have Deep Legislative Connections To Defend Them Against The New.