On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:40:28PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Mr. Bad wrote:
> > Freenet is not about sharing music. It's about publishing. We don't,
> > and shouldn't, have mechanisms for tipping musicians built into
> > Freenet, just as we don't have a word processor or Egyptian barley tax
> > calculation program built into Freenet. It's not what we're for, it's
> > not what we do.
>
> However as the Freenet architecture evolves I believe it or a derivative
> will be used as an infrastructural component of secure, anonymous digital
> currency systems.
Why do we need secure, anonymous digital currency?! Why do we need
currency at all?!
> So consider that -- not only are we building a system that makes it
> possible for people to get away with duplicating copyrighted music,
> we're also making a system that might put extra money in those artists'
> pockets they'd never have seen otherwise.
>
> People have been copying tapes and CDs since way before Napster. Freenet
> may make it easier to copy music, but it will enable more efficient
> compensation of artists in equal proportion.
Look - what we need to do is to destroy the entire capitalist system,
not to just copy copyrighted media and pay musicians anonymously.
--
Yes, I know my enemies.
They're the teachers who tell me to fight me.
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance,
hypocrisy, brutality, the elite.
All of which are American dreams.
- Rage Against The Machine
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