Richard Stallman describes himself as someone who devotes his efforts to progressive activism (such as the free software movement). The largest part of his website has to do with US politics. David Rothman at TeleRead has a transcript of Rothman's July 5th presentation on copyright (taken from Slashdot and verified from watching the ...

On the face of it, you can do little more (or even no more) to contravene copyright with an e-book than you can with a book: make copies/photocopy; cut-and-paste/copy; and so on. In fact, arguably you can do less with an e-book. If I buy a book - one of those old-fashioned paper things - I am free to lend it, sell it or give it to someone else; I ...