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Absolutely. ANY medium. Observe how print publishers are pushing the limits with recent objections to fair-use over works both in and out of print and copyright. They're all testing their boundaries and lobbying for as much stick as possible. It's the cell carrier mentality: a short-term nickel is better than a long-term buck, and the medium suffers along with its audience.

The progress of digital versatility will screech to a halt if these interests are given the free reign we've seen the last few years.

<a href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stiglitz61">Here's an interesting commentary</a> by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Nobel laureate, economics) on recent changes to IP rights and the potential effects thereof. Not a threadjack, just trying to dig a little deeper.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195