En fait toute personne faisant une rercherche google avec des mots comme copyright rms ou stallman, tombe aisément sur des citations non ambigues:
But one obstacle stood in the way: copyright. Readers who took made use of their computers to share published information were technically copyright infringers. The world had changed around this law, so that what was once an industrial regulation on publishers had become a restriction on the public it was meant to serve.
[^] # Re: C'est quoi la propriete intellectuelle ? on s'inspire pas de rien
Posté par free2.org . En réponse au journal Propriété intellectuelle : Peut-on verser dans le libre une technologie très novatrice ?. Évalué à 2.
But one obstacle stood in the way: copyright. Readers who took made use of their computers to share published information were technically copyright infringers. The world had changed around this law, so that what was once an industrial regulation on publishers had become a restriction on the public it was meant to serve.
In a system of real democracy, a law that prohibits a popular, natural and useful activity is usually soon relaxed.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ebooks.html