Re: when did piracy/theft become expression of freedom

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 01:55:31AM +0100, Christian Sciberras wrote:
> > Actually, *most* bands that make money do so off the concert tours - tickets and
> > tshirts is where the actual money is at, not the album sales.
>
> So why bother with album sales in the first place?
>
> This is the same with free/commercial software. At the end of the day
> the creator decides
> the sales strategy.
>
>
> The only thing I can see in this is that the recording industry really
> needs to grow up
> to the times, but piracy is not a solution nor the means to one, just
> like DDoSing facebook
> is not the means to the removal of a certain bill/law (arguably, to
> the contrary).
>
> The recording companies have every right to retaliate just as the FBI
> has every right to
> arrest suspects involved in these childish acts.

Just a quote:
<quote>
In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me -
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Martin_Niemöller
</quote>

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

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j

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