isoHunt’s Gary Fung on Creative Commons
p2pnet news | P2P:- isoHunt’s Gary Fung saying he thinks it’s time people started paying more attention to Creative Commons.
But in a post on his site, he goes a lot further saying from him for him and for isoHunt, Creative Commons is the future.
From Richmond, British Columbia, here in Canada, like so many other people who believe caring includes sharing, he has Hollywood attack dog the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) on his case.
He goes on >>>
With more and more artists embracing the New as a new medium for marketing and distribution, I’ve been reading Lessig’s Free Culture. The introduction so eloquently describes a major issue of our time: that of creativity and culture.”The established industries has always resisted technological change – like the 17th century button makers crying wolf at tailors making buttons out of cloth, like RCA resisting FM radio, like now, big media declares their war on piracy, against us, against me.
But is it really just piracy they are fighting? With increasingly draconian DRM, copyright term extensions and copyright laws, we are heading towards more and more of what Lessig describes as a culture of permission, rather than the free culture we’ve always enjoyed before the internet.
Thou shalt not copy.
Thou shalt not share.
Why allow a culture of sharing, when one Britney Spears is so much more profitable than a thousand Wil Deynes or Radiohead or 168 DJ’s on ah.fm or Nine Inch Nails or hell, 183 Canadian musicians who are already fairly famous (and Sarah McLachlan I’m a personal fan, great original music), all of which seem to have a predisposition against most of the major record labels and thus, pretty hard to control and profit from? The radio and tape swapping and Fair Use rights of the past be damned.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I am not against copyright or laws. This is where some of you and ThePirateBay don’t seem to agree with me on (this link includes some pretty out of context quotes of mine by the way, and perhaps some unobvious sarcasm), but oh well. Yes, even after being tortured by lawyers in 4 days of dispositions (I haven’t told you that part haven’t I, and I’m not going to), I still say that you should not steal.
No, I’m not being hypocritical, and the MPAA didn’t tell me so. Whether you take a Christian perspective on it like I do or not, artists deserve compensation for their arts, plain and simple. That’s what the whole point of copyright laws was about, and I stress the “was”. The problem is not with copyright, but it being lobbied and twisted and extended such that it no longer serves the interests of the public good, that of encouraging a free culture and creativity and production of arts and related “goods” thereof.
A permission culture is what serves corporate interests at the expense of everyone else. Corporate interests to profit is all good, until the expense part. The balance has been broken at your expense.
This is why support and adoption of licensing like Creative Commons (also started by Lessig) is of greatest importance.
You want to save P2P? BitTorrent? File sharing? isoHunt? T
hen take your anarchist sentiments and eat it, because all you will get is being labelled pirates and thieves and that’s not cool. (the accuracy of the name calling is irrelevant) Instead, get as much adoption of Creative Commons licensing as possible, then we can all share our hearts out on more CC licensed materials on isoHunt and BitTorrent and P2P networks without legal repercussions or risk of starving your favorite artist or actor or film maker.
Because the internet and P2P is so much more than just free for all. It is the greatest radio and TV on earth. Use it in a constructive way, for good of both producers and consumers. And with the internet, the line between the two is now none too clear. Because you are often both. That was way longer than a sidenote. I’ll write more as I read Lessig’s book.
And Creative Commons is isoHunt’s future, you can interpret that however you like. More on that too as things develop. Next year you will see interesting things, I assure you. And I should clarify on my Britney Spears reference. Just as the good Ferguson says, I’m not humiliating or making fun of her. It was just an example.
PS. if you read up to here, congratulations, you’ve made the first step in proving them wrong. Internet users like you are not attention deficit. I’ve put this post under the Debates forum as Creative Commons makes interesting debate material, so debate away!
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December 10th, 2007 at 7:42 am
He is sutch and idiot! Only reason we get called pirates is because of copyright law, only reason we are “stealing” is because MPAA/RIAA was not fast enough to embrace the internet, only reason Copyright ever existed and was created was for inventions and stuff you could toutch.
Copyright law IS the problem.
I am not stealing anything if i already bought it, i do no crime sharing with others what i have paid for, i do no crime doing what i wish to my stuff i bought.
Gary Fung is an idiot working with MPAA/RIAA, he do not understand why we fight, he do not understand why copyright law is the problem, he do not understand that he is working with the enemy only to build a secure little market in to witch trap consumers at a later stage.
Gary Fung is doing the opposite of what The Pirate Bay are doing, Gary Fung fights with the enemy and wants to entrap and make markets for consumers, while TPB works against the RIAA/MPAA in changing heavely outdated laws made from the times when a man invented the telegraph and had to insure noone made and sold fakes.
Gary Fung and IsoHunt thinks his users are thieves, while TPB thinks they are not and try to change the laws, try to fight it.
Gary Fung needs to learn what is the moral thing to do?
Help the dinosaur or change him to a current form? Let the course have it way, let the Dinosaur die so a new age can begin Mr. Gary Fung (aka Idiot).
December 10th, 2007 at 8:06 am
What exactly is The Pirate Bay doing for us? Being defiant isn’t going to get anyone anywheres in the long run. Do I see TPB paying $25,000 a month to lawyers to fight the MPAA? No? All I’ve seen from TPB so far is words. Its a laugh how you claim that Gary is “working” with the MPAA. You really have no idea.
Copyright law is the problem? Correction: The MPAA/RIAA’s version of Copyright law is the problem. Perhaps you should go look up what Copyright law was originally supposed to encourage instead of claiming to know it all while making yourself look like an ass.
Are TPB trying to change the laws? In Sweden perhaps, maybe they should magically come to Canada’s aid and fight against the upcoming dreaded CDMCA if you claim they are doing so much to help. *Laugh* Fat chance on that one!
If Gary didn’t give a shit, isoHunt would of fell a long time ago, and you certainly wouldn’t be downloading copyrighted material there.
The only thing that will change anything is if we didn’t BUY their shit, (OR DOWNLOAD IT EITHER), and unleash a total boycott. They need us, we don’t need them.
If everything was Creative Commons instead of the MPAA/RIAA’s version of “Copyright”, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Personally I am sick and tired of reading about TPB. The do not have fans. They have slaves. Gary says “It is the greatest radio and TV on earth.” That is right but TPB are not helping it, they are helipng themselves.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
“Being defiant isn’t going to get anyone anywheres in the long run.” Mahatma Gandhi and the forefathers and proponents of every successful revolution would disagree.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Sure, but that doesn’t revolve around the MPAA’s bottomless pockets and TPB.