I have not read a lot of that website, but I will tell you this: Free/open
movements have been poisoned by piracy ideas. So, we can't really trust
everything that has a "free" badge on it's jacket.
Having said that, and as you can read above, I believe that if people can
find a system that suits them well to share their creations and they feel
confortable doing that, we should applaud, promote, support and admire those
people. And of course, share their content (books, musics, etc). But we
should encourage people to follow that path not ENFORCE and PRESSURE them to
do so. We should say "if you don't use a free license I will not read your
book" or "if you don't use a free license I won't listen to your music nor go
to your concert". We shouldn't say "if you don't use a free license I will
still listen to your music until I buy Apple, they will eventually create DRM
strong enough to stop me".
Does it makes any sense?
I will even throw something more to the fire: To the people who say they are
not "pirating" they are just "sharing", how concerned are you about sharing
with those who are less fortunate than you? How much would you sacrifice to
help others have "culture" (as if hollywood blockbusters is culture)?
Let's say a license of a music says "you can share this for free with anyone
in any medium. but for each person you give it to, you have to give the
producer 10 bucks. the person who receives the music will receive it for free
and he will too be able to share it with other person, but he will still have
the same rule."
Would you follow it? Notice that there is no prohibition of sharing. It just
comes with a cost for the person who wants to share. Not the person who
receives. Would you do it? Are you so seriously concerned about "sharing
culture" that you would PAY to share it? You can argument whatever you want,
and you will probably say that "I am not free if I have a condition to obey"
but the truth is that I am giving you an alternative that would make people
able to download for free on the internet anything they wanted without
breaking the law and the license. It would be the one sharing supporting the
costs. Would you do that?
Most people, no they wouldn't. They only share because it costs them NOTHING!
If it had a cost, there wouldn't be even half piracy as we have it nowadays.
ssdclickofdeath, I was not targeting you personally, but it all came to my
mind while replying to your comment. Don't take it as a personal assault =)
In the first paragraph I explained the problem with current "free culture".
Second paragraph was an explanation on "sharing". Everything else was for
everyone to read and think about it. =) thanks.
