On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Kẏra <[email protected]> wrote:
> The message would be something like "boycott [non-free culture] works", > "downloading is a civil disobedience", and "we only support creators > outside of creative monopoly business models (only paying for freely > licensed works or sending money directly to creators and encouraging to > license freely)". I think SFC has historically been pretty liberal about what flies under our banner, but straight-up encouragements to break (even unjust) laws might be a bridge too far. That said, I'm also not clear how your messages 1 and 3 interact. Would your proposed boycott extend to this downloading, or do you mean boycott just as "don't pay for"? As in, do you mean people should (a) prefer free-culture works, but (b) if they will consume non free-culture works, then download them as civil disobedience? If I'm interpreting that correctly, I think this is not an effective message. An attempt to frame downloading of copyrighted and non-free works as civil disobedience would play pretty directly into the stereotype that our movement isn't about freedom but just about wanting to get free stuff. (I guess I may be misinterpreting, and your suggestion is rather to download free culture works. If that's the case, I don't think it's accurate to describe it as civil disobedience at all, is it?) Parker -- parker higgins san francisco, ca http://parkerhiggins.net gmail / gchat: [email protected] twitter / identi.ca: @xor please consider software freedom before reading this e-mail on a proprietary platform
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