Tag: licensing

More examples of how licensing kills progress: the stories of Gopher and GIF

At Private Internet Access, we’re dependent on – and celebrating – the existence of free and open strong cryptography. Time and again, people proclaiming the virtues of monopolies and exclusive rights – copyrights, patents – are trying to push their model of closedness and permissioned gates onto the Internet. And time and again, the Internet … Continue reading “More examples of how licensing kills progress: the stories of Gopher and GIF”

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How copyright is irreparably, fundamentally incompatible with privacy

Copyright and privacy cannot coexist. Society is at a crossroads where only one of these will exist in the future, and the copyright industry has been working hard to erode privacy to protect its obsolete business. It’s time to acknowledge the conflict and accept that copyright enforcement need to be actively prevented in order to … Continue reading “How copyright is irreparably, fundamentally incompatible with privacy”

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