Digital CommunismWell, we all know what happened, don't we? The peer-to-peer networks won, capitalism collapsed, and we're all saluting giant pictures of Shawn Fanning while standing in line waiting for our weekly ration of bandwidth.
Cyberspace goes red.
By James D. Miller
By legalizing Internet file-trading tools, a California court handed a major victory to communism. The Internet allows the well-wired to take copyrighted material freely. Left unchecked, rampant copyright theft may soon destroy the for-profit production of movies, music and books and may usher in an age of digital communism....
The best hope to stop copyright piracy lies in stopping the distribution of peer-to-peer networks that facilitate such theft. By holding that these networks have no liability for inappropriate use of their tools the California court has reduced the value of digital property rights...Is it necessarily bad if piracy destroys intellectual property rights? After all, when everything is free we can live out Karl Marx's dream and have everyone take according to his needs.
Wonder what he thinks of Open Source?
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This woudl be a good time to post a clip on YouTube of ESR going ape-shit and screaming at the interviewer when accused of being a "communist" for his advocacy of Open Source
The clip was from a documentary on Linux, I forgot the name of it, but I have it here somewhere.
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