Super Mario Conspiracy
30th December 2004, 22:57
An online boycotting against the Recording Industry Ass. of America and Motion Picture Ass. of America will be issued on April 24th through April 30th, 2005.
It's pretty simple: Don't buy their CDs. Don't watch their movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA (Look at the poster!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA
The reason for this boycotting is that many online users are tired of the huge corporate pigs, dictating to us what we should and shouldn't download.
P2P'rs are not stealing, they are copying. No one can judge another person of theft if that other person haven't stolen anything. If that other person then takes the product and sell it, then it is a completely different matter.
Another reason for this is that the RIAA and MPAA have jailed many young people, people who might have invented something new, or have new ideas. Their futures are now all trashed because the RIAA and MPAA don't think they get enough money from them.
As we have entered the new Information Age, we have also discovered something. Information is a public good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
That means that information can be copied infinite of times over, without the original product being lost. It can be used to benefit everyone.
Imagine if you had to pay for air just so that an air-cleaning industry could work. Air, just like food, clean water, housing, free healthcare and education, are public goods.
To restrict them is to restrict the freedom of being human.
But there is more. Check out this law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDUCE_Act
The RIAA and MPAA have gone too far, simply. If this "law" passes, then it could mean the end of the Betamax-case, in other words, it would become illegal to record whatever you want to record, from the TV.
Fascism at it's finest people!
It's pretty simple: Don't buy their CDs. Don't watch their movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA (Look at the poster!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA
The reason for this boycotting is that many online users are tired of the huge corporate pigs, dictating to us what we should and shouldn't download.
P2P'rs are not stealing, they are copying. No one can judge another person of theft if that other person haven't stolen anything. If that other person then takes the product and sell it, then it is a completely different matter.
Another reason for this is that the RIAA and MPAA have jailed many young people, people who might have invented something new, or have new ideas. Their futures are now all trashed because the RIAA and MPAA don't think they get enough money from them.
As we have entered the new Information Age, we have also discovered something. Information is a public good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
That means that information can be copied infinite of times over, without the original product being lost. It can be used to benefit everyone.
Imagine if you had to pay for air just so that an air-cleaning industry could work. Air, just like food, clean water, housing, free healthcare and education, are public goods.
To restrict them is to restrict the freedom of being human.
But there is more. Check out this law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDUCE_Act
The RIAA and MPAA have gone too far, simply. If this "law" passes, then it could mean the end of the Betamax-case, in other words, it would become illegal to record whatever you want to record, from the TV.
Fascism at it's finest people!