Filesharing isn’t stealing II …
p2pnet news | Freedom:- “You could argue that filesharing hinders some people from earning as much money as they would have if filesharing was not possible. But now it is possible, the technology is there, and then the industry needs to find new ways of handling it. They’ve had the chance to work on new ways for 10 years but haven’t come up with much else than silly trailers that say filesharing is theft. [...] When new technology emerges, it’s not necessarily it that must be adapted to the old ways. Sometimes, the industry itself must adapt.”
So says Akko Karlsson a, member of the Swedish Green Party’s executive board, quoted by Ernesto in TorrentFreak.
She also said she’s sure filesharing, copyright and integrity will be important issues for Green Party in the 2009 elections for the European Parliament and the 2010 elections in Sweden. Because, “there is also the democratic aspect of this,” she stated.
“There are so many people under repressive regimes for whom filesharing and the Internet is the link to the rest of the world that inspires, gives hope and makes it endurable to fight for human rights and democracy.
“The state’s control system is expanding. We used to heavily criticize the intrusions of privacy and control systems in place behind the Iron Curtain, but now we are building this ourselves.”
The clip on the right is from YouTube video.
1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
3. to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance: He stole my girlfriend.
4. to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle (usually fol. by away, from, in, into, etc.): They stole the bicycle into the bedroom to surprise the child.
“File sharing is our radio; that’s the way people hear our stuff.” – Guy Picciotto
“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.” – Alexander Solzehnitsyn
“I hate that term, by the way. To me, ’sharing’ means we each get a little less. If I share my pie, I only get to eat half. If I share my car, I can’t use it when the other person has it.” – RIAA president Cary Sherman
And on the RIAA sue ‘em all marketing campaign:
“It’s tough love – for the first time, despite years of educational efforts and the availability of plentiful legal alternatives, we are holding people personally and financially accountable for the theft of creative works.”
Jon Newton – p2pnet
[NOTE: Also see Filesharing isn’t stealing I: Akko Karlsson]
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February 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
The industry must adapt if they want to survive. They will have to keep up with the times. Much like TIME, technology will keep marching on with newer and newer innovations. Those who cannot comprehend the unlimited potential and the opportunity these “series of tubes” present will fall by the wayside. The competent will replace the incompetent. And who’s fault will that be? Pie in the face for you….
February 11th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
“I hate that term, by the way. To me, ’sharing’ means we each get a little less. If I share my pie, I only get to eat half. If I share my car, I can’t use it when the other person has it.” – RIAA president Cary Sherman
That analogy only applies to physical, tangible objects, and has no meaning in the digital world, where a file can be copied an infinite number of times without affecting the original owner. Besides, his one-sided view of sharing vs. stealing completely contradicts his claim that it is, in fact, theft.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Some moan about these brown countries’ bad governments, where the people are not free to play music or dance in public, unless it is religious music or music worshipping our glorious leader or the one true god, peace be upon him. Then proceed to fnck up their country permanently..
Well, wake up.
Some people in power are rowing the same boat ashore in western waters and they ain’t called Michael.
If it ever becomes possible to stop people downloading, or to force ISP’s to police all our files, it will spell disaster for the industries, not the joyous profit binge they keep harping on about.
With the recent closures (UK) of some digital and analogue Radio stations, it shows that DAB is not revolutionary at all. It was always doomed to be an unspectacular medium of inferior quality in the UK, mainly because it was rolled out to be inferior to even the poorest nations on earth’s roll out. Cheapskates.
The future IS the internet for visual, audible and even traditional paper based media formats.
If you can’t share the music, the movies, the news, the dancing, the laughter, the sadness without being ostracised, incarcerated or fined then what exactly is the point in having or celebrating any of it?
There is a green paper currently been assessed in the UK for ISP policing, but you might not have heard very much about it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7240234.stm
Good luck policing 6 million+ people in the UK alone.
I’d wager a bet that it’s not really 6 million, but nearly EVERY internet connection that has downloaded -something- at some point.
Might as well pull the plug on the lot now.