EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping 501
miladus writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching an ad campaign
to
counter the RIAA's lawsuits about file
swapping. There are more details available at the File Sharing: It's Music To Our Ears subsite." The press release kicking off this campaign says that "EFF's Let the Music Play campaign provides alternatives to the RIAA's litigation barrage, details EFF's efforts to defend peer-to-peer file sharing, and makes it easy for individuals to write members of Congress."
Names? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Theft (Score:3, Funny)
Also on their agenda... (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time Pirates started acting like them.
Re:Names? (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, there is also a Steele attached to the name, providing enough ammunition to the *AA. S
For Non-American Readers (Score:3, Funny)
Rather than trying to sue people into submission...
Suing is the American way! Hey, you don't like it? Sue me.
Copyright & Sentience (Score:5, Funny)
All the indications are clear. Within 10 years time, the consciousness of the people comprising the communications of the planet are combining into a common intelligence.
It is not only predictable, it is now inevitable. Just as Moore's Law predicts the doubling of circuit density every 18 months, the doubling of communications links proceeds at a geometric rate.
Copyright will fall to the network. The intelligence of the network is directly proportionate to the number of unique voices to which any individual may hear at any time. Copyright imposes a cost to hear each voice, as this cost reduces to zero, the entirety of the connected human population will hear one another, at will.
When this happens, a new Renaissance will flourish. Art will be promoted on quality, not on its profitability to the distributors. For if distribution costs nothing, there is no incentive to promote the latest Britney Spears album to the masses of people who do not know any better.
When you can hear anything, you will want to hear the best music you can find. Friends will recommend to you what they enjoy, and you will be able to listen at once and form your own opinions.
Artists will prosper under the new system. People will gladly pay people to produce quality, to perform, to entertain and enlighten them. And without the middleman distributors, 100% of the money going to such things will enrich the artist.
This is the new world, it will be here soon.
Question... (Score:3, Funny)
From the too-little-too-late department? (Score:4, Funny)
[holds gun to own head]
RIAA: Don't make me pull the trigger now... Put down the MP3's or I swear I'll do something that I will regret...
Re:Complications (Score:2, Funny)
Re:can we just automod these "theft" posts down? (Score:5, Funny)
Man, I wish that copyright violation == stealing!
I could just see the news now:
It was revealed today that a pirate has stolen every N'Sync song ever made. It appears that he downloaded every song thousands of times, and then, to everyone's horror, deleted them. "It's hard to believe that all that music is gone forever" cried one fan.
Re:Complications (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The "how-will-the-artist-get-paid" fallacy (Score:3, Funny)
To paraphrase Harry Enfield, though -
If that Robbie Williams turned up at my wedding, and started to croon, I'd say Oy, Williams - what do you think you're doing? Crooning like Sinatra's all well and good, but you're shit - go back to Stoke and die.
But that's just me.