EFF Co-founder Faces Copyright Heavyweights At EG8 151
ndogg writes "EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow faced down copyright heavyweights ... on a panel he described as 'the Lions Den' discussing issues of intellectual property. He was the lone dissenting voice ... Mitterand had commented that copyright debates had grown so calm now that everyone agreed upon the ground rules."
Blame FPTP (Score:4, Interesting)
First-past-the-post voting systems are a parody of democracy, and that's how conservative, or more accurately fascists like Sarkozy get their "majority."
Re:Conroy vs. Sarkozy (Score:4, Interesting)
Including Marine Le Pen? That's how we got her dad into the second round, you know....
Re:Frederic Mitterrand ? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:amusingly (Score:4, Interesting)
Perhaps this is why Cory Doctorow refused to speak. The contract he had to sign was too draconian to make a difference, and he assumed (correctly?) that they would just censor him from the record.