Why RIAA lawsuits matter to the Free Software Foundation

John from the Free Software Foundation sez, "When the RIAA chose to attack the Free Software Foundation over our submission of an amicus brief in one of their filesharing cases, it raised some questions -- not about the RIAA's legal strategy of suggesting that the FSF should not be able to file a brief at all, which was clearly baseless -- but about why an organization working on software freedom cares enough about these lawsuits to intervene, and about what exactly the FSF's position on copyright is, given that we rely on it for the GNU General Public license to protect free software."

The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits (Thanks, John!)

[#1 posted by chris, May 13, 2009 7:37 PM]

Go FSF!

I fear that the RIAA will be even more bold and reckless since many of its members are being appointed to high positions in the current US government. We need checks and balances, and I applaud efforts to keep these guys in their place.

Eliminate these middlemen.

[#2 posted by Spikeles, May 13, 2009 11:45 PM]

Not only was the article interesting, a link half way through the article to a speech by Courtney Love was even more interesting.

[#3 posted by Spikeles, May 13, 2009 11:55 PM]

Sorry for the double post, just realized the above link didn't work properly(stupid referrer checking). Try this instead.