[DMCA-Activists] David Reed: "Progress and Freedom Foundation, My Foot"

[Seth Johnson]

(Forwarded from Interesting People list.  The "Progress and
Freedom Foundation" is the source of Declan's recent piece
to the effect that the DOJ is about to prosecute P2P
"pirates.")


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Subject: IP: Progress and Freedom Foundation, my foot.
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 05:25:31 -0400
From: Dave Farber <address@hidden>


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From: "David P. Reed" <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:14:06 -0400
To: address@hidden, dewayne Hendricks
<address@hidden>
Subject: Progress and Freedom Foundation, my foot.

I sent this to you once before, Dave.  Since you and Dewayne
are giving airtime to the gasbags at the PFF in Aspen,
here's my reaction.

People should look more closely at the Progress and Freedom
Foundation's board and funding sources.

The "Aspen conference" is full of speakers who all seem to
be qualified to comment on Progress and Freedom by virtue of
being CEO's of large companies and inside-the-beltway types.

Not a single person who actually does creative work or
innovation.

Or for that matter, anyone who consumes creativity or
innovation.

It's the usual rich or powerful cigar-smoking back-room
crowd, arrogantly ignoring democracy, free speech, and
liberty for their customers.   The folks they think of as
eyeballs, rather than thinkers, consumers rather than
creators, demographics rather than democrats.

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