🚀 go-pugleaf

Not all file sharing is bad.

In fact, many people who create "content" (whatever that may be)
actually want it to be shared and passed around... for big
corporations it might be called "abuse" but for everybody else, it's
"free publicity".

Not everything is copyrightable... and not everything should be.

If our modern day "human experience" is going to become a mine field
of "potential" legal troubles, it's going to ruin it for everyone.
When I was young, I shared my little amateur mix tapes with my friends
at school. Did anybody die because of this? No, of course not.

Nowadays, record companies are selling more than ever before in
history and it's mainly because can "try before they buy". It's one of
the most effective selling tool ever invented. Apple's iTunes has
marvelously caught on to this but many other big (lazy) corporations
are too bothered with their legal vendettas to get with the program.

I have a lot of respect for the people who create and it's all natural
since I'm one of them -but- the current "copyright and pattent"
everything under the sun, especially without adding significant value,
is maddening.

Canada shouldn't go the way Americans have gone because every since
they DMAed themselves, they massively want out. Nobody wants to live
in a cage. Digital or otherwise.

Free content will free the world and amazingly, only the fat,
unproductive and vicious big corporations' CEOs will lose their jobs
(and decadent lifestyles). The rest of us will just be happier (and
richer) than ever. It's really that simple.

Say -NO- to the individuals who think lawyers are "the answer". Many
of them are good people but as a whole, they just multiply problems,
and it's very, very unfortunate.


On 27 avr, 11:41, email...@mts.net wrote:
> With comments like "there's nothing wrong with his company identifying
> alleged file swappers when ordered to do so" , the opperative word is
> alleged. This ISP deseves to have their users leave them enmass, what
> ever happened to innocent till proven guilty?
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/04/21/swap050421.html
>
> A lawyer for ISP Videotron says there's nothing wrong with his company
> identifying alleged file swappers when ordered to do so.
>
> "We do it on a regular basis [when issued a court order]. It's not
> very complicated," Serge Sasseville said in an interview with the
> Canadian Press.