I guess,We should not join any clan like RIAA. I noticed that there are groups of independence of the HollyWood and RIAA,I guess they will replace the dumb

US politics aside, this article was very VERY well written. I will recommend it to all my friends to try to do my own part in “fighting the war”.

That is like arguing that people should have the freedom to enslave others.

You don’t anything about the Free Software Foundation.

This article is CC-BY-ND, and as you can easily see, they use “CC licenses”.

They don’t use only the GNU GPL for programs either.

The only freedom “BDS like” licenses give more than the GNU GPL is the freedom to convert a free program to a non-free one.

You are using a very old flawed argument.

That’s like arguing that slavery should be aloud for people to be truly free.

Also, most of the CC licenses are more restrictive than the GNU GPL.

We all need to stop funding our own demise.

They’ll change their ways if we change our buying habits ;)

I refuse to support companies that actively poisons our society like this!

I commend the FSF for fighting for all of us.

I personally refuse to buy any commercial music cd’s knowing the money goes to greedy corporations and very little to the artist, but I do support the independents.

If we all did this and the artists started earning nothing, how long would it take for artists to start making the leap away from these greedy a-holes. Only then, when they can no longer gouging everyone, will we be rid of the RIAA/MPAA for good!!!!

p.s. right-on #75

“http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6055022735714006569″

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This made me cringe and then laugh. People like you are the problem nowadays.

Hice una traducción al español http://ur1.ca/4b9z

Recently I purchased “The Art of War” for $3 (USD) as a tiny book. It is long since out of copyright, and there are numerous publishers.

Recently I purchased the collected works of Oscar Wilde (the exact title of the book escapes me, and I don’t have it handy). Again, the book is long since out of copyright, and there are numerous publishers.

I purchased and enjoyed the various works of Douglas Adams. There is almost zero chance that people 50 or 100 years from now will have any opportunity read his works, because almost certainly they will still be under copyright and the main publisher will likely not see any financial benefit to continue publishing.

Essentially, these greedy ****s are destroying our cultural heritage so they can line their pockets.

This is a cancer, and much like cancer it can spread to otherwise unaffected areas. IMHO, those of you that think that the FSF should not be involved are not seeing the larger picture.

Given the chance, do you think that they will stop with books, music and films? Because I sure don’t, and it scares the heck out of me.

AMEN ;)

If there was a managed effort and one place it would be a done deal :)

There are also a few non-torrent sites aimed at artists who want to share their works directly, with more poping up all the time it seems.

I would gladly see my dollars go to something with more integrity, values, and ‘value’ than spend them on the bad guys…

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Well said

If you wanna volunteer and be part of it here:
http://www.fsf.org/volunteer

and if you wanna help there is a donation button somewhere in there LoL

Volunteer to be part of a global effort to fight back if you can.

I know the EFF have an international participation and they assist people to organize in other places.

They can win battles in the United States but the MAFIAA is global and needs a global aproach

I have seen now 4 patent extentions on my work. Did I get a cent? No, but I didn’t do it for the million dollar payoff… I am a BBS, Unix, old timer that the internet was originally created to make sure that information flowed freely and the in an event of a bad thing happening that it would remind…

I completly agree with copy holders in their works for making money on their works but in my experience once it hits the Internet, you have to rely on the goodwill of the people.

With the lawsuits and crap from industry and the problems of the crap copy protection that they apply that only harms the honest ones of us that a decade from now will change.

I would guess that if in the infancy that if software and programs wern’t distributed over the BBS or early internet that Microsoft or the 386 wouldn’t have taken hold…back then it was archie and Veronica…even Betty…Gopher was the search engine for things and telnet was the connection..

Business models change and again I will say if someone comes up with a TV model with HDTV through the internet within commercials…I will buy it.

Thanks

Old Man now.

I am speechless…

Nice to see a plug for Linux… I’m a Ubuntu user myself.

Great article and very well articulated with logic of reasoning. I totally agree and support the FSF’s view on the corrupted copyright laws to feed the few greedy corporate criminals.

Let us fight together to protect and defense our civil liberty, so our children will continue to live in a friendly and healthy civil society where people can share their love and passion with one another.