Look at micheal moore, He releases movies for free on the internet that cost him millions of dollars to produce, because he realises that the publicity and widespread knowledge of his efforts will repay him, either by giving him a voice to make change or by being hired for talks and shows around the world which will make him more money.

Micheal moore is a real trailblazer

Cheers
Chris

you blew me away with that one. i was until now on the benches over copyright law but you sold me the whole winning game

under no circumstances go against Gary Fung. he is in the bleeding edge position that needs a mechanism to convert current injustice to right. he is spending dollars but more than that he has the guts to make a stand

i have to go plan a path for this one because i had not previously accepted copyright to be a scarcity mechanism. ouch that hurts. but it is true

notice how torrentfreak repeats FILESHARING IS PIRACY in all the subsequent blogs to this one. Ernesto, Enigmax, you are wrong. it is easy to replace you when you refuse to be the voice of the filesharer

i will speak the unsaid that everyone has been thinking forever. i wish you luck as the voice of The Pirate Bay. you PIRATES deserve the shared future you deserve

http://www.h33t.com will post no longer on this blog

let it be a contest of systems. let the Pirates who would criminalise Filesharers fail

Sure. And the whole “business” of the transatlantic slave trade was trafficking in human beings for profit.

Newsflash: the worst error this “civilization” ever made was creating the notion of copyright in the first place. THAT’s where the enormous development budgets on things come from: thousands of dollars for a fifteen second snippet of video? Study up on the whole “clearance” issue, Poisoned Mind — of COURSE you’ll defend a system which is intensely lucrative to you, and damn the consequences.

What gets me is how Fung can still believe in ANY FORM of “copyright” as valid. If “remixing and sharing” are “vital to culture” (and, yes, I believe that they are) then any legal fictions which impose penalties for such activities — EVEN IF such coercive nonsense happens to be lucrative for a vanishingly small subset of the populace, is a bad thing.

And before anybody starts bleating about the “capitalist” system, you can go suck it: “capitalists” hate competition and markets. Patents exist for ONE reason: so that the patent-holders can get the State to jackboot any “unauthorized” competitors. It’s a “cornered” market, ostensibly for a “limited time”.

The ONLY good thing about patents is that they eventually expire, allow other competitors into the field, and consequently lower prices.

Likewise, “copyright” is a similar State-backed monopoly whose sole purpose is to impose artificial conditions of scarcity by stipulating who is “permitted” to provide what “content”.

If the only thing making your “business model” lucrative is the ability to unleash jackbooted thugs on your competition, then maybe your “business model” doesn’t deserve to exist.

I’ve just finished reading an article over at Torrentfreak.com. The isoHunt Founder Gary Fung wrote a piece about copyright and “CopyFight”. There’s a quote I’d like to share from the end of the post which I think is a rea…

http://www.davidgilson.co.uk/2008/11/thoughts-on-copyright/

btw if you are in Europe you dial 112 to report criminal filesharers to the police

http://www.h33t.com says “Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison”