What’s the big deal with linking to a search result. That’s what a ‘GOOD’ search engine is supposed to do. That’s what I EXPECT a search engine to do.

So fine, Baidu will remove the link on request. I personally, find it all so ridiculous. Times are changing, technology is improving, data is easier to share, and “sharing means caring.”

Something is not right here. Some business “models” are not working. Either that, or it is us, the people, who are in err?!

Look at it this way.

File sharing is not the only culprit. Take the following REAL situations:

(1) Music label “STEALS” from the artists by coercing/deceiving the artist into signing into “exclusive” contracts. These contracts prevent the artist from doing anything, from making a buck “without” the permission of the label. The vast majority of cases, these artists “sit idle for YEARS” without being “allowed permission” to sing/perform/create/record. That is why you see such “mainstream crap.”

Furthermore, and here’s the interesting point, ALL of the “creative works” and it’s distribution rights get automatically accrued to the labels. Now, it get’s more interesting. It now “BELONGS” to the cartel, without them paying a cent for it. If you study contract law, you would know that for a contract/transaction to be valid, there must be “consideration” (i.e. money/value) going BOTH WAYS. If most artists knew how screwed they get, none would sign with the cartel.

(2) Music labels “STEALS” from the people. EVERYTHING is based on prior art, whether it is science, math, engineering, art, music, culture, religion, beliefs, poems, language, stories, movies, ANYTHING AT ALL!!!! When the cartel claims EXCLUSIVE OWNERSHIP to ANY piece of work, they are HIJACKING ALL OF THE PRIOR ART that the piece of “art” is based on! Think about that. The “prior knowledge” does not belong to any one person, nor organization, nor country — it belongs to the collective human race. So the whole issue of “Intellectual Property Rights” is one giant SCAM. It is an systematic attempt to HIJACK (i.e. Steeling through use of force) PRIOR WORKS!!!

If anyone has any strategic intelligence, they would focus on these two points, especially the second one. One someone “trys” to make a “case” for IP, let them know the very foundation of IP is FLAWED — There can not exist IP, because EVERYTHING owes it’s existence to prior work — And to CLAIM OWNERSHIP over all of the prior work as your exclusive property is ridiculous!!!