Ernie
Thanks for the link...it's cool to see grandmas getting something out of
this monstrosity.
The more I think about napster's plight, the more I see a revolution away
from the morality of money. Sure, bootlegging has been around since forever,
but only now are we really charged with bootlegging information. If you
consider the evolution of this argument, it ends two ways...either ideas
gain some form of copyright protection or information becomes free. At
least, these would seem to be the two poles of the argument. So where do we
go from here?
I understand that artists work hard. I understand that some people make
their living from their art. I don't want to impinge on this, of
course...far be it for me to steal another man's livelihood. But do we
really want to copyright INFORMATION? This is where it leads, right? Can you
imagine that world? We'll be paying pennies each time we use someone's
copywritten metaphor...we'll pay each time we sign our name because our DNA
strands have all been copywritten and suddenly our signature is a product of
those copyrights. The more we soak ourselves in money culture, the further
and further we move away from real freedom.
I don't want to undermine the lives and careers of the artists I admire, but
freedom, real freedom, should mean everyone. Eventually this is going to
mean a move away from monetary morality...if we copyright information, we
make knowledge property. This is step one to creating an intellectual class
system.
Sure, now it's about artists' rights, but then it'll be about scientists'
rights...then politicians' rights. Then grandmothers and housewives and
children. Are we going to copyright our voices then? So then you'll have
yours and I'll have mine and we can go play on our own playground, in our
own corner of our sandbox, all by ourselves??
Does anyone else see this sandbox mentality or is it just me?? Private
replies might be better as various listmembers are bound to be disturbed by
the intersection between music and culture.
All thoughts welcome.
---brian
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ernesto Ikerd [mailto:IkerdEA@lmtas.lmco.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:34 AM
To: International Damage Machines
Subject: [idm] the fallout of the 'napster' mentality
Shame on you people with your bootleg mp3s and copyrights-mean-nothing
attitude! You wont stop until your grandmothers are in jail too!
http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20000801/t000072072.html
ernie
Ernesto Ikerd, (817) 763-4795
Company Graphics, Dept 17, MZ-4202
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
Fort Worth, Texas
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