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Luddite: Machines
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Aranov says that in the last decade the word "Luddite" has taken a different route from that of saboteur. Saboteur has long lost its machine-hating origins. It now means a sneaky destroyer, while Luddite has retained the emotional charge and dropped the connotation of violence.
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Almost nightly for three months, the Luddite armies would train and march and smash and disappear into the night. At least 1,100 knitting machines were broken in that time, despite the presence of an increased constabulary and the dispatch of soldiers to keep order. The local magistrates reported:
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Yes, it is the Luddite's intent to stop these machines, and the machines can make no offer or consideration that would obtain his consent. But it is clear that the Congress passed this law fully cognizant of the complaints of technologists, quite similar to the defendants here, that this law would stunt and diminish the availability of important technologies disapproved of by a copyright owner.
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