[FYI] A talk with cyber-rights pioneer John Perry Barlow about Digital Restrictions Management and the future of human knowledg

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Wrapped up in Crypto Bottles  

Stefan Krempl   09.03.2003  

A talk with cyber-rights pioneer John Perry Barlow about Digital 
Restrictions Management and the future of human knowledge  

John Perry Barlow or JPB for short is maybe best known for three 
things: he was the song writer for the Grateful Dead and is still 
supporting music bands. He wrote the  Cyberspace Independence 
Declaration seven years ago during a visit to the World Economic 
Forum. And he tried to define a brand new way of thinking about 
copyright in an well-received  article that was published in  Wired 
magazine. Recently, the co-founder of the  Electronic Frontier 
Foundation came to Berlin to fight the German version of the Digital 
Copyright Millennium Act (DMCA) together with the civil rights 
organization  privatkopie.net. Stefan Krempl sat down with him to 
look forward and back in the history of Cyberspace and copyright.  

[...]  

John Perry Barlow: There are three things at stake. The first is, 
extending a monopoly to a few large organizations about what people 
can or cannot know and express. This is really about the control of 
information and it has the potential to become over time a kind of 
private totalitarianism.  

[...]  

Secondly, I fear that Digital Rights Management today is Political 
Rights Management tomorrow.  

[...]  

Third, I am very afraid, that by wrapping a large amount of human 
knowledge up into bottles that can no longer be opened except at a 
price, much of it will be wrapped up in crypto bottles that in a very 
fairly short time cannot be opened even at a price.  

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