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Technology advances but an old debate lingers THE IDEA ECONOMY / What next?

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20051006
Author:Edward Rothstein

Edward Rothstein
International Herald Tribune
10-06-2005
In 1709, Daniel Defoe compared them to ''House-breakers,'' ''High-Way Robbers'' and ''Pick-Pockets,'' not sounding that different, perhaps, from the way software manufacturers, movie studios, television producers, and some performers and writers sound today when they speak about copyright pirates. Why, Defoe asked at a time when authors had no rights in their own work should there be laws against one kind of villain, and not against those who steal another kind of property created ''after infinite Labour, Study, and Expence''?Why, ...

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