Z:gnu-www-ja-digital-inclusion-in-freedom--85b400-Public anger over these measur/en

Public anger over these measures is growing, but it is held back by propaganda. Terms such as &ldquo;piracy,&rdquo;31 &ldquo;protecting authors&rdquo; and &ldquo;intellectual property,&rdquo;32 and claims that reading, viewing or listening to anything without paying is &ldquo;theft,&rdquo; have convinced many readers that their rights and interests do not count. This propaganda implicitly assumes that publishers deserve the special power which they exercise in the name of the authors, and that we are morally obliged to suffer whatever measures might be needed to maintain their power.