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Learning How To Benefit From Piracy Is Not The Same As Endorsing Piracy
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| John Gunn, the General Manager of a DRM company, alerted us to a blog post he
| wrote taking me to task for the post I wrote last week concerning a software
| developer who didn't freak out when his app was cracked, but used the
| experience to learn what the market wanted from his app. Gunn's post is
| slightly odd, and a bit troubling to me, in that he says that, by showing how
| this developer learned to use the piracy to his advantage, I "crossed the
| line" I have always avoided, and "actively promoted the criminal act of
| software piracy."
|
| [...]
|
| And, finally, to the question "wouldn't I do the same?" The answer is no. I
| wouldn't (and don't) limit my customers. I'd put together a business model
| where it doesn't make sense to do so. I would put together a business model
| where I get benefits the more my content is spread widely -- rather than
| taking an adversarial stance against my customers. Plenty of folks are doing
| so today, and are finding stronger and better relationships with their
| customers and bigger and bigger businesses. And, when my customers do
| something new and unique with my content, I'd learn from it and encourage it
| in order to make my future work that much more valuable.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090114/0629223401.shtml
Recent:
Creative Commons Asks How You Define "Non-Commercial"
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| Joi Ito and the Creative Commons need help getting the word out -- and
| defined. Creative Commons licenses allow (to varying degrees) the content
| they apply to to be freely used, distributed, and altered, with varying
| levels of attribution or certain restrictions on commercial use. One of the
| gray areas Creative Commons has been grappling with is how exactly one
| defines "non-commercial."
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http://ostatic.com/blog/creative-commons-asks-how-you-define-non-commercial
Award-winning Open Source Doc Looks at Digital Copyright
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| Digital technology opens up an unprecedented global economy of ideas. RiP
| explores the robber barons and revolutionaries squaring off across this new
| frontier as the film journeys from the control rooms of Washington to the
| favelas of Brazil.
|
| Along the way, Gaylor interviews key figures about the complexities of
| intellectual property in the digital era, among them Creative Commons founder
| Lawrence Lessig, culture critic Cory Doctorow, Brazilian musician and former
| Minister of Cultural Affairs Gilberto Gil, and Jammie Thomas, the single mom
| successfully sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for
| illegal downloading.
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http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=93048&issue=12032008
Introduction to Copyleft Movement
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| When a car breaks down on a high way, the driver opens the bonnet and checks
| if he can fix the problem. Often, experienced drivers do so. If he does not
| know, he will take the car to the garage or call a mechanic if he cannot tow
| it to the garage. The mechanic in the garage fixes the problem, and the car
| is back on the road. This is what happens with every other technology. Does
| this happen with software?
|
| [...]
|
| I did not spend time explaining giving technical or economic reasons for
| using FS. This is not because FS is not a superior technology. FS is already
| a success story. From small industries to big one, everyone is using it. The
| list of success stories is very big. You will possibly hear about them from
| other sources. Most people who use FS often talk only about the technical
| features, and much often about the economical aspect of it. Since there is
| little awareness about the social, ethical and political reasons mentioned
| above, I chose to talk about them instead of the technical and economical
| arguments.
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http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/12/introduction-to-copyleft-movement.html
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
US presidential candidate is a pirate
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| THE PRESUMED Republican US presidential candidate John McCain favours
| draconian copyright enforcement, except when his own election campaign uses
| other people's music.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/16/gop-presidential-candidate
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