GREEN PIRATE

Perhaps the best part of this article about the music industry suing the government of Ireland for not implementing SOPA like laws that would coerce ISPs to perform DNS blocking is the following statement made by an anonymous reader in the comments section:

I value the principle of a separation of powers, especially when it comes to industries that are entirely dependent on power of the state to [maintain] a business model.

Does that not sum up the very source of the burden that the entertainment intellectual properties industry has placed on the world? In which type of free market economic scenario can any industry without providing any real service or value be sustained through force of law. If it were possible to simply pass a law that the economy functions well, don’t you think the Obama regime would have don’t that instead of floating it on credit?

The most important question everyone should ask themselves at this time is whether we can afford to have these entertainment industry leeches sucking the life out of the government and people of the world while we are all in desperate need of economic improvement.

PS ~ I don’t care if you actually click “like” as I was only poking fun at the renobs who do that. However, I would like to remind you that this is a CC licensed blog with goal of seeding ideas relevant to our times. In other words… share! Share the shit out of it!

To those who wish to make a living by distributing creative content under copyright licensing, here is a recent quote from Mike Masnick; an adult who realizes his own responsibility to make a living in the modern world.

I put “labor and time and money” into Techdirt, and then it’s my job to figure out how to make a living out of it. It does me no good to sit around and say “but I worked hard — now pay me.”

Now here’s one from me, your average, unabashed non-commercial file-sharer (‘pirate’ for short):
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There has recently been a lot of attention given to PayPal’s freezing of funds belonging to WikiLeaks. PayPal has a long history of freezing it’s user’s finances. I’ve personally had to deal with PayPal freezing my cash because they wanted a tracking number for shipping, which made no sense for a rent payment sent from my room-mate. I was able to resolve this with some patience and a silver tongue, but I’ve known others who haven’t been so lucky.
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Amazon has recently announced the following statement regarding the Kindle:

We will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users. Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period. Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable [loanable*] – this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending.

While some people have considered this to be a sign of progress by a major player in the content distribution industry, it just makes me feel like I’m waiting for the commercial world of content distribution to catch up to the present.

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