Tom,
First you need to note that the pirate bay is LEGAL in sweden.
Secondly, you need to keep in mind that the music and film industry
rips off everyone involved in music/film/artist production and does
its very best to cheat people out of the products of their own labour
- ever heard about the 'work-for-hire' clause? See http://
archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ for a musicians view
of the way in which the music industry harvests copyrights by any
means possible - including lobbying to change the law to forcibly
claim copyrights.
Remix culture is the possibility to engender a 'semiotic democracy' -
that is the ability for ALL members of society to use and reuse
knowledge, information and culture that are, in any case a social
production in the first place. Afterall, the corporations merely
harvest the social uses we make of their branding and then cry foul
when they want to draw a profit from it - in effect silencing people.
Why should we allow the corporations to cleave off parts of our
social life for their personal and exploitative usage, leaving us
with a diminished right to speech and autonomy?
Democracy requires the ability for us to communicate, and
communication requires the transference or copying of information
across culture. Democracy also requires the ability to use culture,
information and knowledge in order to criticise, challenge and
question - it is a public good linked directly to notions of
democratic agency and autonomy.
Just because the multinationals are engaged in a struggle to convince
us that they 'own' culture - rather than we the people granting them
the right for a limited term - doesn't mean that we cannot decide by
democratic mandate to take it back. And we certainly shouldn't
condone the aggressive tactics of the MPAA to lobby Washington in
order to force the Swedish government to act illegally within its own
country to close the pirate bay down over the democratic will of the
people.
Best
David
On 29 Aug 2006, at 10:44, Tom Chance wrote:
Ahoy,
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:54, David Berry wrote:
For those who can't wait for the bit-torrent (ipod .mp4= 152mb/
regular .mov= 336mb/dvd .iso= 1.43gb download) ;-)
Steal this film on Youtube
part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw3HNTRpP-I
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY-dlyFju1w
part3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTey38YkLus
part4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARSsn3lnDvI
What do others think about this film? I watched part one a week or
so ago and
felt totally unconvinced. The industry is out to make a profit? Ah,
so all of
their arguments must be selfish nonsense and it is OK to freely
distribute
thousands of copyrighted feature films.
Regards,
Tom
--
The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their
transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the
name of the betrayed ideal (Fromm – Beyond The Chains Of Illusion)
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