about Aaron and breaking unjust laws, not specifically about the download-disobedience campaign, in case conceptual background is useful: http://mutualgift.net/2013/01/13/breaking-unjust-laws-and-aaron-swartzs-killing/
~ Patrick On 01/19/2013 09:32 PM, Kẏra wrote: > Something Aaron understood was the value of direct action and breaking > unjust rules over merely lobbying for reform. I'd like this to inspire > more action along those lines. > > What if we worked on a 'download disobedience' campaign (an idea i've > had for a while), where there was a simple website reframing file > sharing as a civil disobedience rather than piracy. > > 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)". > > There could be instructions to seed torrents using free formats with the > tag #downloaddisobedience and a copy & pasteable manifesto type deal to > make them easy to find and spread the word. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Board of Directors, Students for Free Culture: www.freeculture.org > <http://www.freeculture.org> > > Blog: http://thesilentnumber.me - StatusNet Microblog: > http://identi.ca/kxra > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - SMS: > +1.617.340.3661 <http://1.617.340.3661> > Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - IRC: kxra > @freenode @oftc @indymedia > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
