!@!Re: [Upd-discuss] a longer term strategy for promoting the public domain?

[Michael Hart]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Richard Stallman wrote:

> I think that fees on certain kinds of products (such as DAT tapes or
> blank CDs, or connectivity, or whatever) could potentially be a good
> substitute for prohibition of copying, as a method of supporting
> artists.
>
> (Of course, what the publishers want is both the fees AND the
> prohibition.)

_I_ would be only too happy to pay an extra 10% on all media
and then be free to put whatever I wanted on it. . .!!!

Michael S. Hart
Project Gutenberg