An Open Letter to Chris Dodd

[Well written, full of truth:][link]

>Consider this letter our “Don’t tread on me!”. Our agenda is to protect our own liberty to create and our users’ liberty to enjoy those creations as they see fit. We have no give and no compromise on either of those, but long as Hollywood stays out of our patch (that is, no more attempts to lock down our Internet or our tools) we’ll stay out of Hollywood’s.
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>And if you’d like to discuss some ways of fighting piracy that don’t involve trampling on us and our users, we do have some ideas.

[link]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4155 “An Open Letter to Chris Dodd”