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But Carole Cadwalladr loses me about 5 minutes from the end, where she claims that copyrights are "property" and that copying public data is like walking into someone's house to "steal the silver". For one thing, this is just factually wrong, and was thoroughly debunked 20 years ago;
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/boldrin-levine.en.html
But it's also the old anti-traveller cant; 'we can't have those kind of people loitering around here, going into people's places stealing the silver'.
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www.gnu.orgReview: Boldrin and Levine, “The case against
intellectual property” - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
