Sharing between friends is OK: Lord Lucas
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “It is well-known that Newspapers are read by many more people than who buy them. And certainly, I’m happy to read newspapers left behind on buses.”
So said UK peer Ralph Lucas addressing the House of Lords.
In a GooTube video headed up Lord Lucas: Blasts Porn Lawyers (ACS LAW?), “People have got used, and I think it is entirely reasonable, to a reasonable level of sharing between friends and within a small community of copyright material so that it doesn’t have to be purchased again at every incidence rate it’s used,” he stated, going on >>>
And the figures that are produced for the loss that is incurred by the creative industries from illegal downloading, my lords, No: the figures that are produced are not the loss. They are the infringement of copyright.
It is not at all certain how many of those songs or films would actually have been purchased if people have had to pay for them.
Many of the people who are doing this are not in a position to pay for more than they’ve paid for already, so one must be careful in the terminology one uses.
And I think we must be careful too about the industry cloaking itself in the finery of the small creative individual. My lords, we are not talking about the small creative individual, here.
We are talking about powerful, monopolistic industries and giving them power over our citizens is something we ought to be careful of.
We wonder if Peter ‘Mandy’ Mandelson, the peer fronting for the corporate entertainment cartels in their bid to have their Three Strikes bidniz plan implemented as British law, was in attendance?
(Cheers, Richard)
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December 7th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I like Lord Lucas
December 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I agree with Rabbit80 this guy ROCKS! If we could get a few more like him that are smart enough
(and brave enough) to see and say the truth, this whole thing could be blown out of the water.
Go Lord Lucas!!