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	Prohibition Revisited ?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b6b8c3f2-70ba-458f-b657-248d1ca865b4/715A7545-4285-4840-9DEA-E4D602EEFE01/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3899" href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3899" style="font-size: 11px;">government.zdnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3899"><H4>July 21st, 2008 </H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3899"><P class="meta">Posted by Richard Koman @ July 21, 2008 @ 8:11 AM</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3899"><P><IMG width="150" height="294" align="right" src="http://www.mugshots.com/IMAGES/P__pretty-boy-floyd.jpg" />Sunday’s installment of <A href="http://www.wpr.org/book/080720a.html" linkindex="33" set="yes">To the Best of Our Knowledge</A> features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at  least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of <A href="http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11155-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=49908&messageID=935296&start=0" linkindex="34" set="yes">a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down notices</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3899"><P>Lessig’s point was that today’s copyright laws are effectively Prohibition 2.0. Read the above comment substituting “drinking” for “using copyright material.” Just as in prohibition, we have outlawed basic behavior — the urge for a drink, the urge to comment on some aspect of our culture. And the effect, he warns, may be the same. In the 1930s, society saw their basic desires criminalized and they further saw rife corruption, taking advantae of the legal status of alcohol. Everybody obtained booze: everybody was a criminal. The sheriffs and g-men were criminals too; they took their “piece of the action.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/715A7545-4285-4840-9DEA-E4D602EEFE01/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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