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Mambo · 07-11-2008, 01:07 PM

In my humble opinion there is one perfectly good solution for authors to prevent other people from using their intellectual property: don not publish your stuff! Once you published it - out of your hands.

If you decide to publish it don't complain about when others are using it. Ok, not everybody will access your stuff via commercial channels, but that is part of life (some of the people will read it in a library - those are the real evel folks). We are talking about 7 000 000 000 people so what is your problem, find your customers.

Your right is not about walking around and punish everybody who is not wealthy enough (or considers himself wealthy) to buy your thing. Your right is only so much, that you have an exclusivity of selling your products. Nobody else should be able to legally sell what you have created - that's all. This is an author's reward that should be legally enforced.
Otherwise I think that knowledge and entertainment is power and whoever prevents people from accessing knowledge or entertainment or demands higher payment than a marginal sum wants to keep people in slavery and steal their freedom. Every human being was born as a free person and has the right to get into contract with you upon his free will, but you don't have the right to stop him enjoying his poor life by excluding him from the society through charging excessive amounts for information and entertainment without which nobody can actually participate in social interactions.

So taking action against pirates who actually SELL illegal copies of intelectual property - is good.

Taking action against users who share in their community for no benefit in return - is against human kind and comes from the evil no matter how nice they talk and how intelligent is their argument. These people (who support legal initiatives against people who download or share) are antidemocratic and supporters of systems of oppression to put it in a nice way. I wouldn't like to be one of them or a friend of theirs.

One day everything you do, say or think will be monitored and you can give thanks for it to those harmless "authors" who just wanted to make a living...

Yes I want to make a living too, yes I want my rights, but not at the price of total control and losing my privacy.

07-11-2008, 01:07 PM	#69
Mambo Gadget fan Posts: 147 Karma: 3968 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: London Device: RM Tablet PC, iLiad, PRS 505, iPod Touch	In my humble opinion there is one perfectly good solution for authors to prevent other people from using their intellectual property: don not publish your stuff! Once you published it - out of your hands. If you decide to publish it don't complain about when others are using it. Ok, not everybody will access your stuff via commercial channels, but that is part of life (some of the people will read it in a library - those are the real evel folks). We are talking about 7 000 000 000 people so what is your problem, find your customers. Your right is not about walking around and punish everybody who is not wealthy enough (or considers himself wealthy) to buy your thing. Your right is only so much, that you have an exclusivity of selling your products. Nobody else should be able to legally sell what you have created - that's all. This is an author's reward that should be legally enforced. Otherwise I think that knowledge and entertainment is power and whoever prevents people from accessing knowledge or entertainment or demands higher payment than a marginal sum wants to keep people in slavery and steal their freedom. Every human being was born as a free person and has the right to get into contract with you upon his free will, but you don't have the right to stop him enjoying his poor life by excluding him from the society through charging excessive amounts for information and entertainment without which nobody can actually participate in social interactions. So taking action against pirates who actually SELL illegal copies of intelectual property - is good. Taking action against users who share in their community for no benefit in return - is against human kind and comes from the evil no matter how nice they talk and how intelligent is their argument. These people (who support legal initiatives against people who download or share) are antidemocratic and supporters of systems of oppression to put it in a nice way. I wouldn't like to be one of them or a friend of theirs. One day everything you do, say or think will be monitored and you can give thanks for it to those harmless "authors" who just wanted to make a living... Yes I want to make a living too, yes I want my rights, but not at the price of total control and losing my privacy.