Copyright © 2004 Shlomi Fish
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Revision 1417 | 14 October 2005 | shlomif |
Forked the text from a previous document, and starting to adapt it. Tagged as CC-by 2.5 | ||
Revision 1422 | 21 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added a rudimentary introduction and the entire terminology section. | ||
Revision 1426 | 21 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added a “Why File Swapping should be Legal?” Section. | ||
Revision 1427 | 21 October 2005 | shlomif |
Wrote the ”About this Document” section. | ||
Revision 1428 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Wrote the “Refuting Common Arguments” section. | ||
Revision 1429 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added two more examples for why file-sharing does not hurt media sales. | ||
Revision 1431 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the “more legal uses” section. | ||
Revision 1432 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the “Reflections on Online Stores”. | ||
Revision 1434 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the “Conclusions”. | ||
Revision 1435 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the “Other Important Copyrights Issues”. | ||
Revision 1436 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the “more links” sub-section. | ||
Revision 1438 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Went over the article and corrected many problems. | ||
Revision 1446 | 06 November 2005 | shlomif |
Added the “Can File Swapping Really be Stopped?” Section. | ||
Revision 1447 | 06 November 2005 | shlomif |
Added the “How you can Help” Section. | ||
Revision 1452 | 10 November 2005 | shlomif |
Fixed a grammatical problem courtesy of t1ber from kuro5hin.org. | ||
Revision 1601 | 18 August 2006 | shlomif |
Added a footnote about the benevolent felons, a note about “stealing from the rich and giving to the poor”, a note about “The Golden Rule”, an entire setion about “The Internet as an Alternative Medium of Distribution”, a section about the historical perspective of copyright law, some links and some corrections. Second Revision. | ||
Revision 1604 | 28 August 2006 | shlomif |
Fixed a typo (“who” → “which”). | ||
Revision 1618 | 19 November 2006 | shlomif |
Fixed a grammatical problem pointed by a correspondent. | ||
Revision 1773 | 20 May 2007 | shlomif |
Corrected some errors (such as spelling, phrasing or grammatical); added more discussion of why copying an artwork is moral; added the merchandise way of making profit, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” anecdote, “Don’t Download this song”, and DRM and the Sony rootkit. | ||
Revision 4854 | 05 June 2011 | shlomif |
Convert to Unicode-style quotes. | ||
Revision 5230 | 22 September 2012 | shlomif |
Fix some spelling errors. |
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