"Functionally voluntary" music may lead to blanket licenses
Privacy Digest (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
"Functionally voluntary" music may lead to blanket licenses - Via ars technica: Jim Griffin consults for Warner, one of the four major music labels, and he sees a disturbing sight when he looks around at the digital music landscape. Taking music without paying for it may not be "morally voluntary," Griffin says, but he admits it has become "functionally voluntary." No civilized society, he adds, can...
