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Copyright © 2004 Shlomi Fish
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (or at your option a greater version of it).
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Revision 1417 | 14 October 2005 | shlomif |
Forked the text from a previous document, and starting to adapt it. Tagged as CC-by 2.5 | ||
Revision 1422 | 21 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added a rudimentary introduction and the entire terminology section. | ||
Revision 1426 | 21 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added a "Why File Swapping should be Legal?" Section. | ||
Revision 1427 | 21 October 2005 | shlomif |
Wrote the "About this Document" section. | ||
Revision 1428 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Wrote the "Refuting Common Arguments" section. | ||
Revision 1429 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added two more examples for why file-sharing does not hurt media sales. | ||
Revision 1431 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the "more legal uses" section. | ||
Revision 1432 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the "Reflections on Online Stores". | ||
Revision 1434 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the "Conclusions". | ||
Revision 1435 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the "Other Important Copyrights Issues". | ||
Revision 1436 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Added the "more links" sub-section. | ||
Revision 1438 | 22 October 2005 | shlomif |
Went over the article and corrected many problems. | ||
Revision 1446 | 06 November 2005 | shlomif |
Added the "Can File Swapping Really be Stopped?" Section. | ||
Revision 1447 | 06 November 2005 | shlomif |
Added the "How you can Help" Section. | ||
Revision 1452 | 10 November 2005 | shlomif |
Fixed a grammatical problem courtesy of t1ber from kuro5hin.org. |
The purpose of this article is to explain why Internet file swapping (of media such as music files, video files, etc.) is moral, ethical and should be legal. Plus, people who share files on the Internet or download them, must not be prosecuted.