о собственности

09:35 | 07-05-2012 | Censorship, Copyright | No Comments

ну и, пожалуйста, очередная заметка о пиратах и пиратстве:

If we’re going to talk seriously about piracy, it’s not kids downloading the odd song or TV episode, nor is it third-world software developers downloading the ebooks that I’ve edited and written. That’s shoplifting at worst, and while I’m not going to condone shoplifting, it’s a cost of doing business, and not a particularly large one. As Tim O’Reilly has argued, and as O’Reilly’s sales indicate, the additional exposure you get through piracy more than compensates for any “lost sales,” especially since the sales you lose are the sales you were never going to make in the first place.

ничего удивительного, но стоит лишний раз повторять, тем не менее. в целом же, куда интереснее другое наблюдение, часто остающееся за кадром:

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) have to be understood in this light: it’s just another IP land grab. It’s an attempt to frighten those who would compete with the established media companies, an attempt to assert monopolistic control over creativity. The ability to take domains offline without due process, even on the basis of inadvertently linking to copyrighted material, is nothing if not an attempt to legitimize theft on a grand scale. Because there is no due process, a defendant can’t respond until he’s already out of business; and then, it’s a matter of whether the defendant can outlast Hollywood in their ability to pay legal fees. “Justice” is meaningless if you run out of money before you get to the end of your case. [emphasis mine]

чистая правда.

  

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