http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

C’mon neo, you can do better than that! This has nothing to do with morality, but with laws… laws that are increasingly out of touch with reality, i.e. with the way people behave.

You may moan about the loss of respect for Copyright, but is that loss of respect really so surprising? Copyright was NEVER meant to have such long terms. It was a social contract between creators and and the people. By abusive extensions of copyright terms from 20 years after creation of the work to 70 years after the death of the author, and quasi-perpetual copyright for DRM-infested and corporate works, the people have been heavily short-changed by the content lobby in this social contract. The balance has been tipped way too far towards creators (and their exploiters, a.k.a. labels, publishers etc…), up to a point that it starts to fall apart.

A social contract that is increasingly biased towards one side will inevitably become irrelevant, because the other side WILL stop respecting it. No legal threats can stop this, because it is a universal social pattern of behavior.

neostyles, you’d have a much easier role here if you were at least advocating SANE copyright laws. But simply moaning that people don’t respect copyright laws AS THEY ARE NOW, won’t gain you much traction nor sympathy, you know? You’d better advocate reforming copyright, lest it breaks down totally in a few years… because in its current maximalist and anti-people form, IT WILL collapse (and then, even small indies will pay the price).

Nevertheless, the music and media lobby in italy is very strong: we’re the ONLY country in the world where we have to pay a royalty tax on ALL KINDS of digital media (CD, DVD, hard disks, Compact Flash, SD/SDHC, iPod, phones with internal memoty, ALL).

When every form of entertainment is free, the true value of an individual piece of entertainment is exposed. The industries don’t acknowledge the value of my time, yet somehow, I value it much more than any form of entertainment which my time is spent to watch/listen to/play. How many times have you downloaded a movie/music only to watch/listen to it, be disappointed, and second guess the value of the download? The value of the download…

It happens to me constantly. A large percentage of this “entertainment” often isn’t even worth my time to wait for it to download. For free. And they really expect us to pay for it? The secret is out. The milk is spilled. Now they want to put it back in the bottle and try to sell it to us? That shit was on the floor a minute ago… It’s worthless.

Foolishness perpetrated by dinosaurs who are too stupid to understand why they are going extinct is still foolishness nonetheless. It is for this reason that with or without the availability of sharing, many people will not be spending their money on shallow entertainment industry products until the industries either evolve or die.

When this person/composer would have been in any other enviroment (even a few meters difference) he may not have had the random idea and the creation wouldn’t have existed. The people around the person are part of the inspiration but don’t get paid.

Now you want to turn every thought into a property. A scientist who does much more usefull work (and invests more time) does not have his work protected for millenia and get rich. A scientist goes to work the next day. An inventors with a lucky idea gets only 20 years on a patent.

It doesn’t matter how much money anyone throws at you, as you don’t have any great ideas nothing will be created. So motivating with money doesn’t work. In your intellectual property mind, who in ancient times should be allowed to have the aquaducts, the Romans or the Aztecs ? Different civilizations created the same ideas. So if someone needs money to create, someone else will create sometime, somewhere the exact same thing without the money.

And also learn to read, it is PAID for by advertising so it is NOT handed out for free.

(i am sure someone can word this much better)

BRAVO! We need MORE real people like him to come out of the “Piracy Closet” so to speak ;)

First of all they should offer the songs for free in an average quality (let’s say 128kbps 44kHz CBR mp3 for some concrete example) using the bittorrent technology and open trackers to reduce their costs and offer direct download of varied formats (including lossless) for the people paying a small fee (let’s say, $40 per year). This along with advertisement and/or sponsoring and the offer of physical goods within the site should be enough to generate a nice amount of money. I for one would pay.

O well, came from a politician MAFIAA. Try to sleep with that in your head. People file share, doesn’t matter their position =)

see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt7pNgfscNg

ciao!

“A proposal I have made for some time without being heard is the creation of a great national site where people can legally download music for free,” says Maroni. He believes the cost of such a service could be met by advertisers and sponsors.

This guy is a fucking moron. So now we should create a market where people’s work is handed out for free and ownership means nothing? How much motivation will anyone have to create anything then? Also, the cost of advertising is supposed to compensate an artists who’s album was downloaded by a million people? How about some common sense? People with ludicrous ideas like these are ruining the economy.

The internet has made is so easy to lose sight of the simple fact that people still own what they create, no matter what format it is in. It’s like it’s screwed up people’s moral compass beyond repair.

You can read a Google translated version here: http://bit.ly/maroniletter

This must have hurt very hard for the MAFIAA.

@4 Pizza
Not Italian and don’t know the context but this is what everyone will have with IPv6 in future (whole ranges actually).