--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
We DO want to make sure that the Napster/Gnutella
crowd doesn't get the idea that
we're running some kind of underground file swapping
service, of course. I am very
interested in the changing nature of copyright in
the face of technological changes,
so I'm glad *other people* are testing the
boundaries. But Wikipedia is not about
copyright activism, it's about making an
encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is engaging in copyright activism, although
not the same kind as the P2P crowd. We're developing
an alternative to conventional reference works
protected by restrictive copyrights, instead of
breaking current laws by swapping music and movies.
Stephen Gilbert
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