Interview between Kim Hill (presenter) and Richard M Stallman
There are people who are totally opposed to copyright and criticize me for not going far enough, but what I say is that works whose use is to do practical jobs, these works must be Free in the sense of the Four Freedoms that define Free Software. You've got to be free to republish them, to modify them, publish your modified versions, because this is what the users of the works need in their lives. But of course there are lots of works that don't, that contribute to society in other ways, they're not functional practical works.
Art for instance, the contribution of an artistic work is in the impact it makes on your mind, not in whatever practical job you might figure out how to do with it sometime. And then there are works that state people's opinions and thoughts and what they've seen, which is a different way that works can contribute to society, and I have different recommendations for these. But the freedom to non-commercially share, that must be respected, and that's why the new New Zealand Copyright Law and the old one were both unjust, and the purpose of the new one is, specifically the punishing people by disconnecting them from the Internet, the purpose of that is to stop people from sharing, and it's wrong to stop people from sharing, so even if they work out a different way of achieving this unjust goal, the goal is what's wrong, not only the nasty methods that are, because only draconian methods can stop people from sharing.