Z:gnu-www-ja-copyright-and-globalization--da757c-=3Cb=3ESTALLMAN=3C/b=3E: Absolutely no/en

STALLMAN: Absolutely not. I hope it won't, you see, because the publishers exploit the authors terribly. When you ask the publishers' representatives about this, they say, &ldquo;Well, yes, if an author or if a band doesn't want to go through us, they shouldn't be legally required to go through us.&rdquo; But, in fact, they're doing their utmost to set it up so that will not be feasible. For instance, they're proposing restricted copying media formats and in order to publish in these formats, you'll have to go through the big publishers because they won't tell anyone else how to do it. So they're hoping for a world where the players will play these formats, and in order to get anything that you can play on those players, it'll have to come through the publishers.