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Copyright © 2004 Shlomi Fish
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (or at your option a greater version of it).
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Revision 1417 | 2005-10-14 | shlomif |
Forked the text from a previous document, and starting to adapt it. Tagged as CC-by 2.5 | ||
Revision 1422 | 2005-10-21 | shlomif |
Added a rudimentary introduction and the entire terminology section. | ||
Revision 1426 | 2005-10-21 | shlomif |
Added a “Why File Swapping should be Legal?” Section. | ||
Revision 1427 | 2005-10-21 | shlomif |
Wrote the ”About this Document” section. | ||
Revision 1428 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Wrote the “Refuting Common Arguments” section. | ||
Revision 1429 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Added two more examples for why file-sharing does not hurt media sales. | ||
Revision 1431 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Added the “more legal uses” section. | ||
Revision 1432 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Added the “Reflections on Online Stores”. | ||
Revision 1434 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Added the “Conclusions”. | ||
Revision 1435 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Added the “Other Important Copyrights Issues”. | ||
Revision 1436 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Added the “more links” sub-section. | ||
Revision 1438 | 2005-10-22 | shlomif |
Went over the article and corrected many problems. | ||
Revision 1446 | 2005-11-06 | shlomif |
Added the “Can File Swapping Really be Stopped?” Section. | ||
Revision 1447 | 2005-11-06 | shlomif |
Added the “How you can Help” Section. | ||
Revision 1452 | 2005-11-10 | shlomif |
Fixed a grammatical problem courtesy of t1ber from kuro5hin.org. | ||
Revision 1601 | 2006-08-18 | 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 | 2006-08-28 | shlomif |
Fixed a typo (“who” → “which”). | ||
Revision 1618 | 2006-11-19 | shlomif |
Fixed a grammatical problem pointed by a correspondent. | ||
Revision 1773 | 2007-05-20 | 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 | 2011-06-05 | shlomif |
Convert to Unicode-style quotes. | ||
Revision 5230 | 2012-09-22 | shlomif |
Fix some spelling errors. |
The purpose of this article is to explain why Internet file swapping (of media such as music files, video files, etc.) is moral, ethical and should be legal. Plus, people who share files on the Internet or download them, must not be prosecuted.