2008/5/19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/vie-privee-industrie-film-pirate-droit-europeen
>
> Le piratage est moralement indéfendable. J'en suis d'accord.
> Microsoft a avancé grâce au piratage.
> Maintenant, que n'importe qui vienne fouiller dans ma bécane...
> et pourquoi pas dans mon bureau ? il y a peut-être des papiers douteux...
> Jean-Louis
>
I read following posts but I prefer answer to this. The reason I hope
will be clear in the following text.
In Italy I have heard many times strong debates about words usage by
whom I consider respectable people, too. So I would like to face your
point of view too. If you are not in mood to read a long post but are
curios about main ideas you could read the last paragraph entitled
"summarizing", at the end. In the case you will find interesting you
could rewind the post or I will offer my apologize!
;-)
The question is that the true pirates attack ships and kill people
for money. Even in the worst scenario, selling not authorized copy,
nobody risks his/her life and still has nothing to do with old sailing
piracy. In the less worse scenario, sharing for free among peers,
pirate words usage seems really exaggerate.
In few words the basic idea is that starting change the words usage
will start to change the politic approach. Information goods are not
rarely and finite like material ones. Under this point of view sharing
for free should not be such great problem. People has not an infinite
amount of money to buy as much as they can see or listen. The economic
lost they claim are bullshits because if peep-to-peer sharing make a
film famous they still can sell that film t-shirt or other related
gadgets.
Software are different because it is not an artistic opera but a
functional product. It allow to us to produce better, faster or in a
way it was not possible before. However using not authorized copies of
software outside producing environments should not a great problem
because in one hand who not produce anything could not sell anything
and in other hand he/she starts to depend from that software and as
much people depend on a software as much that software value rises. If
four people in all the world had the fax the fax machine values
nothing, but if the 4 thousand most important people have the fax the
fax would a valuable elite piece of technology, further if 4 million
people have the fax then fax would be a commodity as it is. For this
reason using proprietary software in a school should be really really
deprecate like making advertisement in classroom.
Majors use piracy concept because they are scared to loose the
control of the information channels: big companies could push onto a
film or a singer very much in order to make up it as a greatest
success but they cannot control people sharing attitude. So they have
to ban the sharing attitude using the law and the politicians are
happy if they could control the network for the same reason: who
controls the information channels could controls the world usage and
make people think in the way they would not if different words usage
are involved in. Democracy is nothing compared to the power of
transmitting the message that red is the colour of the blood and
violence and blue is the colour of the sky and freedom. Just a stupid
example but I would not annoy you with more complex one, I hope the
main idea has been shown.
Rebels or terrorist? Pirate or sharing peers? Mad scientist or
misunderstood genius? Depend on the words you will accept and use that
your mind reacts following the stream of ideas which are related to
that words. I think major will win the game if their words usage will
be spread as solely vision of the world and humans attitude. People
has the innate attitude to share but if we change "to share" in "to
piracy" we invent a world in which not only people copy but kill too.
In this scenario, very slowly but constantly, our mind start to
populate the world of pirates and we start to feel unsafe and to avoid
others because they could piracy with us or against us! A world of
divided people are a world of solely consumers: extremely nice for the
major but extremely bad for people which are been projected by natural
evolution to face together the real world dangers and challenges. Try
to defend yourself alone, one to one, against a hungry tiger or just a
little puma!!! Humans constitute the biggest danger for any animal
specie when they act all together but are really weak when they are
alone.
Major will win? Am I too pessimistic? Yes and no. Pirates film is
going to shown even more nice pirates because if people think sharing
is like piracy so piracy tend to loose their negative meaning. Share
became piracy and peers became pirates but peers are nice so pirates
tend to going to be nice or the peers have to going to be as bad as
old pirates. In the real world, but in the world of politicians in
which you cannot trust anybody pirates are still old pirates!!! This
happens to every people who lost connection with the real world, to
any people who received too much money or power they do not need relay
to others to live well. I am not sure about French politician but
changing the country does not change the fact that we have the duty of
feedback our politicians with the correct words usage or they will
lost the contact with real world and the society will follow on their
wrong rail.
*Summarizing*: I think it is right to recognize the impact of the
words usage and ask to politicians to use those are correct and avoid
others. In one hand I think it is our duty to explain why some words
like "piracy" are misused and dangerous when strongly connected with
information sharing. In other hand I think it is our responsibility to
push onto the idea who sells (for money) copyrighted information
without a regular permission will broke the law and he/she is going to
be a social problem. In fact we would care GPL is not violated as any
copyright holders would no anybody could sell their works. However
information is not a private belonging because it is not rarely and
finite as material goods. Information monopoly like copyright is a
social convention which have to serve not the business but the
scientific and cultural improvement of society feed innovative and
creative people.
I hope to have add something interesting to this thread, if not sorry
for my long contribute,
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