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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Thanks for the digested version of this thread spellbanisher. It really helps to get things organized. I still stand by my "assertions" regarding what you consider entertainment. To me they are not assertions, but I have no other proof then simply myself saying,
"I have a deeper and more knowledgeable understanding of the world after watching a few Harry Potter Films".
But that is evidence enough I believe for allowing anyone who wishes to copy Harry Potter and share it with everyone else.
At the moment I'm seeing a global network where everyone can connect and where everyone is identified, everything you upload and download is marked and noted. In this network copyright would not be needed, do you agree? Attribution to the source would be automatic and payments could be made to the originator of a work accordingly.
This type of network is not too far off, certainly closer than food replicators.
There would of course be a darknet, but if the lightnet wasn't censored too much, I don't think I would mind using it.
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Maybe some other time in another thread I'll make a thorough distinction between entertainment and art. That would be sure to upset lot of people. In short, though, entertainment is escapist, or in other words , its purpose is to distract you from the real world by either being pointlessy and gratuitously or sensationalistically provocative or as banal and generic as possible. Entertainment panders, it confirms our worldview instead of challenging it. Art tries to engage or capture realty. It does not pander. It tries to achieve truth. But what I won't go any further into that for now.
ON your second point I'm not sure I like the idea of everyting being tracked and marked. That just makes surveillance and government manipulation and censorship much easier. Still, the idea of marking all information and being able to reward content creators that way is a nice one. One way artists can be compensated is through isps and internet providers. We already pay for bandwidth. Isps could track torrents and other media and then distribute bandwidth money proportionally among content providers. Thereare other problems with this though, such as how do you keep Isps accountable, and how easy or difficult the process would be for smaller artists to be recognized by Isps. Isps could also try to squeeze out smaller artists though legal costs(essentially, the isps would refuse to pay artists knowing the artist couldn't afford to challenge them in court). Of course artists could counter by forming coops and guilds. I don't think this is something you would like though, because in this system people would be charged for how much banwidth they used. Still, think this ultimately could be a simpler system that requires less government coercion.