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So there is a great deal of fuss going on about ownership in the Net, and since I care about more than just free software, I care about that fuss. I have a side over there too. But the important thing for us in the conversation we're presently having is that the owners of culture now recognize that if they are going to prop up their own methods of distribution, a method of distribution in which distribution is bought and sold and treated as property &mdash; and you can't distribute unless you pay for the right to do so &mdash; unless they can prop up that structure, they are done in their business models. And for them that requires something which I truly believe amounts to the military occupation of the Net. They have to control all the nodes in the Net and make sure that the bitstreams that pass through those nodes check in before they go some place that the right of distribution hasn't been bought or sold in order to permit that bitstream to go.