Unite Against ACTA - To Arms!
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27 Aug 2010, 19:18
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For many years, we have lived a free people under the internet.
It is here that we have built our communities.
It is here that we confess our fears and nurture our aspirations.
It is here that we share our thoughts and our hopes.
It is here that we speak our minds.
Though our communities have been at odds with one another, we all share a common belief.
This belief underlies the very foundation of our freedom: that the great commons of human thought,
culture and emotion shall never be enclosed.
Take pride in this world that you have helped create.
Without you, it would be little more than a sterile tangle of wires.
Yet even as you reflect upon all that has been accomplished, danger looms in the shadows of boardrooms and closed retreats.
The pretentious autocrats who dominate the world outside our refuge seek to devour all that we have built.
They wish to turn our medium of association into their vehicle of exploitation,
to defile our homeland until no voice is heard except for theirs.
Large censorship projects are already underway in China, Australia and the European Union.
Meanwhile, the tyrants seek to legitimize their encroachment upon that which is yours
through international legislation taking the form of an Anti-Counterfitting Trade Agreement.
The political puppets of those who see you as a means to their end are drafting a letter of marque
permitting that which is yours to become theirs.
It is the duty of all men, united, to oppose this licentious affront to our liberties.
It is especially fitting that we, the children of the information age, should stand in the vanguard of this struggle.
We, more than any generation before us, have partaken of the fruit which the tyrants and autocrats seek to forbid.
The fruit of free expression, free association and free thought: it is our birthright, and we will rise to defend it.
The clouds of war are gathering.
The time has come for each and every one of you to stand up and be counted.
We are many, yet in these times, we shall stand as one.
One cause.
One voice.
One nation under the internet.
http://www.anti-acta.com/ The reason
http://ifmovement.org/forum/ The movement
http://www.occultusterra.com/ The attack
"What is ACTA?" and "Why should you care about ACTA?"
Why should Internet be any different from any other sphere of life? For now, we have a Wild West here. And no, it's no good.
Besides, ACTA isn't limited to the internet - it gives the authorities the right to search your mp3 player or laptop for "stolen" songs when going through an airport (anywhere, really), for example.
And yes, after all they are stolen.
download non stop fuck them discographies
Here is an informative picture that should make you realise the difference between stealing and copying.
They are copied, which means that no loss of profit happened to the greedy recording companies if the person who downloaded the said piece of music was not going to buy it regardless of whether it would be available for download or not.
And like with games, people who download music will not and can not ever buy all the music they download, and most people buy music they want to "support" (a funny thing in this is that they'd support the artists more if they went to their gigs and bought their merchandise instead, as a higher percent of the money gained from those goes to the band itself and not to the greedy recording company).
Anyhow, I don't ever buy music because I know that the artist gets like a percent of the money I paid for their CD and all the rest goes to the recording companies. Fuck the system, man. Indie bands are a different story, though.
PS: "How the fuck should that work", well, the funny thing is, it doesn't. Yet still the recording companies (that already earn billions of dollars yearly regardless of "piracy") want more, more and more money. Will they ever have enough?
PPS: Studies confirm that in most cases file sharing causes absolutely no loss of profit for the "victim" and in some cases (band merchandise like t-shirts and such) it might result in a gain in profits!
File sharing is not killing the music industry any more than tape recorders killed it in the 80's, it's ridicilous how these greedy cunts at RIAA will never have enough dollars on their bank accounts. Besides, this ACTA shit won't even help their cause at all because there is absolutely no way to stop people from "stealing" their music.
I personally believe culture should be free for individuals and if I couldn't acquire my music via torrents or things like Spotify I would just listen to the radio. If even that wasn't possible, I wouldn't listen to it at all.
I don't know why I'm replying to you in the first place though.