Doonesbury on file sharing
p2pnet.net News View:- We recently posted a somewhat elderly Doonesbury strip on the subject of file sharing.
Here’s what a p2pnet reader has to say n the subject.
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It’s obvious after the end of this series of strips on filesharing that doonesbury author Garry Trudeau doesn’t get it at all.. It’s obvious after watching it for a week that he believes in, and wishes to propogate, the RIAA/MPAA party line … once again when history and several studies say otherwise.
Take this dialogue from one of the strips:
“With file sharing, we’re being liberated from the hierarchical tyranny of record sales… Careers henceforth will be concert-driven, fragmented, and small!"
"And fan bases?" asks Mark.
"Will be kept in Palm Pilots!"
Clearly, from this text the author has failed to escape from the fallacies being rabidly spread about the recording industry and filesharing in general. He obviously believes the assertion that talented songwriters are incapable of becoming popular without their "almighty" assistance.
Of course everyone will notice the first line.. where he decides to once again spread the myth, now debunked by several notable studies, that filesharing harms sales.
Rather than bring to the forefront the fact that home recording of tv with VCR’s has been legal for years, that Audio home recording act of 1992 made noncommercial sharing of sound recordings legal, that this has yet to hurt movie, tv , or record industry revenues, and that filesharing is little different than these legal precedents and common public practices, this man has seen fit to simply tote the party line.
The implication is obvious… the author is trying to portray filesharing, copyright reform, and those who support it as left wing nut bags.
This is a sad day for satire as a genre.
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March 1st, 2005 at 11:36 pm
the writer of the above comment obviously has no concept of “SATIRE”.
that’s what Doonesbury has been doing for the past 30 years.
duh.
just like SNL (Saturday Night Live), it is SATIRE. not necessarily Trudeau’s own opinion, but a mixture of many opinions of consumers, politicos, and industry insiders.
duh. it’s SATIRE.
March 2nd, 2005 at 4:19 pm
I don’t know Garry Trudeau is very rich or not. However, I think that most of the money he earnt come from copyright.