tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post9151762532662398231..comments2024-03-22T12:20:48.920+00:00Comments on open...: RevolutionsGlyn Moodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-1101881762169053922011-08-17T22:16:07.267+00:002011-08-17T22:16:07.267+00:00@john: indeed - it's unusual that this one is ...@john: indeed - it's unusual that this one is starting in Europe, but it still has a long way to go...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-69174155853934625572011-08-17T22:10:10.374+00:002011-08-17T22:10:10.374+00:00Sadly, Spotify is not available in every country -...Sadly, Spotify is not available in every country - for instance, my own home of New Zealand. The revolution still has some distance to turn.Hi from John.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15897543687013464785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-75651976434069563312011-07-31T06:44:08.850+00:002011-07-31T06:44:08.850+00:00@twitter: great comment - thanks. I hadn't co...@twitter: great comment - thanks. I hadn't come across the sad story from Jamaica before; as you rightly say, a classic case where sharing would have made everyone richer...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-44980432732737740382011-07-30T22:55:11.983+00:002011-07-30T22:55:11.983+00:00The revolution has hardly begun and there have bee...The revolution has hardly begun and there have been many regressions <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html" rel="nofollow">along entirely predictable lines</a><br /><br /><br>Your journey was over more than a decade ago when people were able to cooperate with p2p software like Napster. The most important part of the journey is the ability to share and create the library of the future, something much better than the "selected" works libraries like Spotify.<br /><br /><br>The copyright bullies tore Napster, mp3.com and several other excellent ventures out by the roots. The companies and their investors were sued. They have done everything in their power to retard the growth of physical networks and impose draconian terms on everyone's connections. Several people have been caught up in show trials designed to terrorize the rest of us with multi million dollar judgments.<br /><br /><br>Technology gave us a modern miracle of loaves and fishes, the bullies made it a crime. In the case of Arron Schwarz, the copyright maximalist have made clear their intent to fight sharing even of academic works. Aaron did not actually commit the crime of sharing, he simply downloaded more than some arbitrary and unpublished quota allowed and elsewhere expressed a rather popular opinion. That opinion is that science should be shared universally so that more people can work the real miracles of our civilization and bring sanitation, clean water, medicine and other comforts to those who now live in desperate poverty. As Eben Moblen put it, "As many people who have ever existed are living now, <a href="http://www.mercycorps.org/rogerburks/blog/15669" rel="nofollow">How many of the Einsteins that ever existed were allowed to learn physics</a>?" If we otherwise thwart educated genius, the least we can allow a suffering world is the ability to sing and dance in cultural freedom.<br /><br /><br>In the decade since the bullies killed Napster, more precious works have vanished along with their analog media. One of the most terrible losses has got to be <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7761344.stm" rel="nofollow">the 2007 looting of BBC recording studios in Jamaica</a>. Had people been allowed to share, that music would be in countless libraries around the world where it belongs. <br /><br /><br>The bullies have a siren song about money and riches to be had through exclusion but it is generally a lie. Artists have <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love" rel="nofollow">done the math</a>, and both <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/cBoI/~3/x0T-4gWXdqU/self-perpetuating-copyright-enforcement.html" rel="nofollow">private</a> and <a href="http://www.thereader.es/local-business-a-finance/6752-spains-performing-rights-organisation-sgae-raided-by-anticorruption-police.html" rel="nofollow">public scandal</a>, [<a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/12/03/wikileaks-cables-rev.html" rel="nofollow">2</a>] have shown that more power for publishers results in less money for artists.twitterhttp://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/217907noreply@blogger.com