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FreeNet
FreeNet
March 27, 2000: The implications of The Free Network Project (aka FreeNet) are pretty huge. Is this the end of intellectual property as it currently exists? Ian Clarke, whose idea it was, argues that copyright violation is a price worth paying for freedom from censorship. John Perry Barlow says there isn't a choice anyway because we can't control intellectual property anymore. I say simultaneously "Yikes!" and "Wheee! Free music!"