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- Steal This Film II
Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main goal.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.– Guy Debord
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Irony.
We have a writers strike because corporations refuse to give money for distributing intellectual property.
Then we have a testament against people 'paying for freely shared intellectual property'.
I work in the creative industry, and frankly, I like getting paid for my work.
I work in the creative industry too, and I think it's possible for one to get paid for his work without requiring our entire culture to be locked up in a panopticon. Sure, when information is something to be shared and not jealously hoarded, you might not be able to squeeze every last little dollar out of any fans/users/clients you get in your clammy little grasp, but that kind of absolute control doesn't work. It's not working now - mad with power, interested only in their immediate gain, the copyright cartels are simultaneously ripping off the artists while suing their customers.
Information wants to be free as in libre, but fear not: nothing is gratis. But we wouldn't need to rely on copyright cartels and draconian laws even if they actually served a purpose outside of ripping off as many people as they can get away with.
There are other ways, and people are working hard to discover and implement them. The Internet has changed the game drastically, but people will adapt, and for the better!
Somewhat less profound: Periods are useful in quotations of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. - mpkomara
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