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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Artinfo Digest, Vol 6, Issue 14 From: [email protected] Date: Fri, June 19, 2009 13:00 To: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:32:00 +0200 From: Miltos Manetas <[email protected]> (by way of Janos Sugar) Subject: [artinfo] Pirates of the Internets unite This is the time for the Foundation of an International Pirate Party like the one the PirateBay brought forward in Sweden and which got 2 seats at the Europarliament. Nobody from my generation and all the younger ones, goes ever to vote and that's because we have nothing in common with all those political parties and the ugly people who are handling them. But if there is some clear + fun target such as the Freedom of the Internets, the Freedom of information, if the people who are representing us have cute faces and a strong sense of humor like the guys in Sweden, then why not vote them? We all need to think twice the matter of intellectual property and copyright; it is a huge one and we need to look at it from a philosophical point of view and stop playing amateur lawyers. Once and for all: it isn't about some Hollywood and Silicon Valley bosses losing money and the rest of us getting something for free: its about Digital Nature. The fact is that the World is becoming digital, that the texture of knowledge is a texture you can and actually HAVE to copy in order of having some participation in it. The producers of copyrighted material (and I am one of those), are simply too few to dictate the rules of this game. We simply don't have the rights: Everything that becomes successful, from a poem to a drug and from an Operating System to a music record and a film, owns its success to the manipulation of the Multitude. People haven't ask to know how the Coca Cola logo looks, neither they asked to know the melody of "Like a Virgin". We, the producers, drill that in their brains. It's an already embarrassing planet, we (people who can afford computers and time to use them) are already from the side of the speculators. People have the right to own anything that was projected on them, the only rule should be "you publish it you lose it, it now belongs to all". Taking such an extremist position on that matter, can bring us together for once. We can agree, as communists agreed once, on something that is definitely humanitarian. Then we can test our power, we can start be really disrespectful to the clowns who are in control of the situation. War to intellectual property and copyright, is our opportunity because it really freaks all kind of enstamblishments. Let's build a Political Party in each Country around it. Pirates of the Internets unite!. Miltos Manetas/theInternetPavilion.com, 2009 End of Artinfo Digest, Vol 6, Issue 14 ************************************** _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
