On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Kẏra <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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). > Ok, that's roughly what I understood the first time. I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with the idea then — I think it's too fine a needle to thread, saying that we think people should download whatever they want, in fact it's a political statement, but we prefer they download stuff that artists/creators allow them to, but they should also pay if they see fit, but not to certain parties. Especially on that last part. I'm reminded of the Cory Doctorow's position on the "author tip jar": his publisher is an intermediary, but one that provides value to him. So even when people approach him and ask to give him money for content that they've legally downloaded free, he doesn't accept it. (He asks people to buy copies of his book instead and if they don't need them to give them as gifts or donations to libraries.) Labels and studios can be bad guys, and certainly have been in a great many situations in the past century, but I think we do a disservice to our own position to assert loudly that artists and creators are the only link in the chain that deserves to be paid. There are better and more coherent ways to push back against gatekeepers. Thanks, 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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