On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Parker Higgins <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > That's where #3 comes in-- we would encourage people to financially support free cultural works, and even artists/creators behind non-free works by [somehow] sending money directly to them (bypassing labels, studios, etc). > > (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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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