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Originally Posted by acidzebra
No, it is not dancing around the real issue. All these issues are interconnected. Copyright and length thereof. Content owners and content creators. Digital media. Our common culture.
There is no real way to stop it save for shutting down the entire internet, every computer connected to it, and destroying all the digital media out there. The genie is out of the bottle, and calling people thieves and blathering on about the moral issue - that is dancing around the real issues. People who try to take our common culture and try to lock it up behind steel gates - those are the real thieves.
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Thank you, so much,
acidzebra for your thoughts. Memorable nic, by the way!
I wish I possessed your written “oratory, elocution” and comprehension skills. Your thoughts are as refreshing as the thoughts of Aristotle and Thucydides.
I always wondered (when reading slashdot.org) about the fact that digital items were an infinite source but couldn’t connect how they applied to big corporations and “creators” taking away our
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO SHARE as human beings. Yes, you’re right. Now I understand that most of us, or at least I, would willingly tax myself for the use of such digital items as ebooks. It is because I as well as others like me are GENEROUS to such “creators.”
But in no way do I feel an OBLIGATION to do so since
CIVILIZATION since FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS DID NOT PAY for such items AS COPYRIGHT AND PATENTS. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS from Ancient Babylon to Egypt and Ancient China to the Fall of Rome, ideas were just that, ideas, nothing more and nothing less. If a chariot maker had great ideas to make certain chariot structures, ANYONE in society could use that idea and not have to pay said chariot maker.
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, NO ONE HAD TO PAY ANY “HOMERIAN AUTHOR” FOR THE STORIES OF THE ILIAD. Any storytelling singer who sang the Homer tales of the Iliad was paid based on their ORAL ENTERTAINMENT abilities towards the Ancient Kings and nobles The king only pays you if you’re able to entertain him and his court. The better the TELLING of the story, the more surer there would be payment in the end and the HIGHER THE PAYMENT!! SO BASICALLY
ANY STORYTELLING SINGER COULD RETELL THE ILIAD AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN ANYWHERE ANYTIME FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY A CENT TO THE “ORIGINAL AUTHOR.”
It’s only in the last few hundreds of years of Europe that “ephemeral items” like stories in the PUBLIC DOMAIN are laid on the masses as something they can’t share because of its GREED-CENTERED CAPITALISTIC “ownership” which is enforced by “society’s Overlords” aka the government. You’re right. The true thieves are those who try to put a yokel on the necks of the masses, strangling and feeding off of them like a LARGE PARASITIC TAPEWORM.
I would have just given up on this thread since it looked like the masses were buying the “creators/publishers are being ripped off by web pirates and the only way to be law-abiding, moral, ethical is for EVERY BODY ON EARTH to buy our pbooks at $30 or whatever at a pop otherwise you’re riff-raffing scum!!” media propaganda, but I’m glad I kept reading this thread, otherwise I would have missed your posts. Your thoughts cleared my mind and were ON TARGET, refreshing and compelling.
I strongly encourage you to write an ebook of your thoughts on copyright and digital distribution and to distribute it thru digital downloads and the torrents and p2p for the WORLD’S masses like me to read and learn and understand (in open source multiple e-formats without drm, of courseJ ). It would be one of the most valuable ebooks online!! I know there are other books that discuss the same things you post but the WAY YOU EXPRESS your thoughts is one of a kind!! Your words will indeed be as enduring as those of Shakespeare and Homer.