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There are so many local and indie artists who are willing to give you their work for free and would be thrilled to see you copying it to your friends. Those are
by jart 5y ago
There are so many local and indie artists who are willing to give you their work for free and would be thrilled to see you copying it to your friends. Those are the people who care about the free flow of information the most. They're also usually the ones who respect the intentions of creators the most. Because if you won't agree to pay money for it and be forbidden from copying, then the smart thing to do isn't to pull out bittorrent. The smart thing to do instead, is pull out your guitar and start recording something better. That's what freedom is. Maybe if everyone wasn't so focused on pirating Goliath, more people would be supporting David.
- autoexec 5y agoI agree, the best thing we can do is to try to create new works outside of the current media industry/copyright system. It's increasingly dangerous to do that however. Part of the reason copyright law is so aggressively enforced and expanded is to make it more risky for people to create and publish their own works. While I fully agree, we should try to support independent creators when possible, but even then people are still left with nothing but terrible choices. Should they cut themselves off from fantastic pieces of art and massive parts of their culture? Should they financially support the broken system and greedy industry holding art, culture, and progress hostage? Should they risk increasingly severe legal penalties for accessing content without authorization? I think ultimately the answer is going to be a combination of everything. Right now, the media industry has the lawmakers working exclusively for them. Until we can get representatives who'll represent us we'll likely have to resort to increasingly creating, sharing, and consuming art outside of copyright law.