Make not-for-profit sharing legal
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- If you’re in the UK and you believe entertainment cartel plans to have a law enshrined that could have people who share files online with each other thrown off the net are wrong, go immediately to Zoe Blade’s 10 Downing Street petition page calling for the legalisation of the not-for-profit sharing of copyrighted media.
If you do that, you’re probably among the 70% of Britons who think people accused of illegal downloading deserve the right to a fair trial.
Says Zoe »»»
The law should reflect what the majority of persons are doing with current technology, not the interests of a minority of persons working for corporations. The majority of persons seem to freely share copyrighted materials whether directly or indirectly. This should cause corporations to update their business models accordingly, not to use valuable police and court resources enforcing laws written before such technology was available, that were intended for professional bootleggers rather than the public at large.
The cut-off date is March 7 next year. But don’t wait. Sign now .
“I’m a web developer as a day job, but in my spare time I write science fiction stories and compose music,” Zoe told p2pnet, adding:
” I release pretty much everything I do under a creative commons license, so I really do practice what I preach.
“I started the petition so that politicians will be able to see the other side of the story the RIAA and MPAA and similar organisations have been feeding them. The corporations they represent want to make out that there’s no difference between organised crime’s professional bootleggers and friends swapping demotapes or sharing films, and I’m hoping to show them that’s simply not the case — that a lot of people share files amongst each other, probably even the majority of people.”
Yesterday, ” ‘ ‘Piracy’ — as done by teenagers, all my friends, pretty much everyone I know, is simply demand where appropriate supply does not exist,” said Alice Taylor, commissioning editor for education at Britain’s Channel 4 TV, on Scotland’s new Perspectives website.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
right to a fair trial – Most Britons against P2P file share ban, October 19, 2009
Alice Taylor – Piracy equals demand without supply: TV boss, October 19, 2009
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October 21st, 2009 at 6:18 am
Nice to see an update on this worthy endeavour I too bumped the topic back at my own site, please sign folks and get your p2p friends to do the same, lets not lose our voices by apathy.