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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:30:10PM +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
> Nathan Saper wrote:
> > Even if they do (which I haven't heard of, but I could be wrong), the
> > trend right now is more corporate power, less governmental power. As
> > I said before, we are already seeing this trend, what with
> > corporations able to circumvent countries' environmental codes and
> > whatnot. It will only get worse.
>
> it is not corporations *ignoring* government powers (or "circumventing"
> them, what a nice term in light of DMCA). it is corporations using
> government as their executive branch.
>
And in many cases, governments are contributing to their own demise.
IE, the creation of NAFTA and WTO, both U.S. inventions, which
severely limit government powers in dealing with coporations.
> take a look at DMCA, take a look at the european proposal I have in my
> hands (gotta search that link, it's document # 9512/00) - tell me they
> were NOT written by corporate lawyers.
Of course they were. Just about everything is.
>
>
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