FWD: The dotCommunist Manifesto

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The dotCommunist Manifesto 
Eben Moglen 
January 2003

A Spectre is haunting multinational capitalism--the spectre of free 
information. All the powers of ``globalism'' have entered into an unholy alliance to 
exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the 
United States Congress and the European Commission. Where are the advocates of 
freedom in the new digital society who have not been decried as pirates, 
anarchists, communists? Have we not seen that many of those hurling the epithets 
were merely thieves in power, whose talk of ``intellectual property'' was 
nothing more than an attempt to retain unjustifiable privileges in a society 
irrevocably changing? But it is acknowledged by all the Powers of Globalism that the 
movement for freedom is itself a Power, and it is high time that we should 
publish our views in the face of the whole world, to meet this nursery tale of 
the Spectre of Free Information with a Manifesto of our own. 

continues at: http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html

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