hi, to get a better understanding about all this issue about how copyrights are used to manipulate 'culture' for the benefit of a few (the so called media-companies, or as they like to call themselves, content owners. But they don't actually own it the individual artists do...) , read Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. (he is a Law Proffessor at Yale, if I remember correctly..)
Here he draws the difference about Free Culture, ie: when ppl sit around a camp fire and sing songs, tell stories... and Commercial Culture, where someone records those content, prepare it into some media and sells it. In the days of physical media and distribuition (paper, CDs) this demarcation is quite clear. As the technology changes, from physical to electronic (Radio, TV) these 'media' companies fought to maintain their own interests and helped push for even stronger copyright laws... But you still required large resources or relied on the media companies to create cultural content. And the media company 'controlled' the technologies and even suppressed technology that could threaten their monopolies. With the internet, it became possible and even easy for ordinary persons to create and distribute content, and resulted in a burst of creativity... and this threatened the media companies! And they will do what they can to control the technology and suppress 'independent' content creators. Another point that was brought up was that new creative (cultural) works, historically, was always based on prior work - a new piece. of music being based on an earlier work... but by having too strong copyright laws, this would not be possible and hence may suppress creativity. ie: the MPAA could sue you if you used 'commercial' soundtrack on a video you shot and put on YouTube. Yes piracy is bad because it deprives artist off earnings, and discourages them from producing more content. But to have strong copy-right laws to protect the interests of media companies is a not a solution either. Besides, FLOSS or Creative Commons content also threaten them, simply because its something thats difficult for them to control and offers an alternative to the stuff that they are peddling. go read the book... its available online ... FREE CULTURE HOW BIG MEDIA USES TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW TO LOCK DOWN CULTURE AND CONTROL CREATIVITY BY LAWRENCE LESSIG On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Ghodmode <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Boh Yap <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hi >> >> No big deal, on the one hand, the the major sponsors of this program >> is the MPAA, the RIAA which represent the recording and movie >> industries. These are the people who sue single mothers and kids for >> downloading content! While they make fat profits by charging >> exorbitant prices for their content, and pay artists a pittance! They >> are nothing more than gangsters who cry foul, when their earnings are >> impacted! >> > > Thank you Boh Yap for making a very important point. Copyright law is > completely broken because commercial organizations such as MPAA and RIAA > have too much influence over lawmakers. Their mission is to make as much > money as possible and they influence lawmakers to make laws that support > their goals. > > We might have a problem in Malaysia with illegal software, music, videos, > etc, but this IIPA list isn't an indicator. It's just another piece of > propaganda in a war against consumers. > > -- Ghodmode > > >> >> And are they the same party also supporting Software Patents? >> >> And these ppl oppose FOSS as well.. >> >> Red1, maybe you can get the SW pirates to make 1,000's of Adempiere >> CDs and distribute them?? >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Its still trouble us... Between pirate and OSS, most of them will pick >> > pirate. Need to promote the good of OSS and the evil of pirate.... >> > >> > For our OSS friends in Indonesia... Report for Indonesia directly >> > mention about OSS, >> > >> > http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2010/2010SPEC301INDONESIA.pdf >> > >> > "which threatens to create additional trade barriers and deny fair and >> > equitable market access to software companies." >> > >> > and OSS in Malaysia, tiada taring lagi...... Report do not mention >> > about it. So more work to us as community. >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Muhd Syazwan Md Khusaini >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Moral of the story: promote to use Free, Libre & Open Source Software >> >> (FLOSS) among your friends, family or probably your workplace too. >> >> Just share with you guys. 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