Start the Exodus

[Ceraziefish]

A friend of mine sent me a link to slashdot today;

"The Liberal Party of Norway (Venstre) passed a unanimous resolution that advocates legal file sharing. The party wants to legalise sharing of any copyrighted material for non-commercial use. It also proposes a ban on DRM technology, free sampling of other artists' material, and shortening the life span of copyright. The Liberal Party is the first Norwegian political party, and the first European mainstream political party, to advocate file sharing. The Liberal Party's youth wing proposed the resolution."

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/15/1950200

So, everyone, start the grand exodus to Norway.

[The Lone Magician]

Yay Norway.

[Galkar]

Speaking as someone who's entire hard drive content (quite literally, except for the couple of text files I wrote myself) is made up of pirated material, I think this is lame. I personally have no problem with pirating stuff, and will download whatever I can get my grubby hands on, but on a larger scale, I see no reason why people who have created something shouldn't be able to protect the financial rights to that creation.

I know if I made some game or something and tried to sell it to people, and everyone stole it and gave it to all of their friends without paying, I would be mad.

[JeremyGEE]

All the bastards with the pirated burzum albums are gonna be lovin this.

[JeremyGEE]

All the bastards with the pirated burzum albums are gonna be lovin this.

Aparently, no one is lovin this....

[amy]

WTF? This is really dumb.

I can see it for print material (because people want to read the hardcover books, and we already have libraries that perform the same function) but not for music.

[Ceraziefish]

I think there needs to be vast reworking of copyright law. I think it's wrong to just get rid of it like these people are saying.

For example, I don't think you should be able to sell your copyright, because then whoever is making money off of it is not the inventor.

I also don't think it should last for X number of years -- until the creator is dead, then it becomes public domain.

[Galkar]

I think there needs to be vast reworking of copyright law. I think it's wrong to just get rid of it like these people are saying.

For example, I don't think you should be able to sell your copyright, because then whoever is making money off of it is not the inventor.

I also don't think it should last for X number of years -- until the creator is dead, then it becomes public domain.

I agree with both of those. Copyrights should exist to protect the creator; it makes no sense for one to run out while the creator is still alive, and there's no reason to be making royalties off of something you didn't create.

[Arcane]

Copyright law definitely needs to be completely reworked. We're still using a system that's over a hundred years old in today's world of information that hardly resembles any time in the past. I definitely don't think copyrights should extend past the creator's death, in the United States a copyright will extend 70 years after its creator has died (thanks to Disney and Mickey Mouse). On top of that, the vast majority of copyrights are held by corporations, and corporations don't die. It's almost impossible for music, movies, etc to ever become public domain for that very reason.

[Ceraziefish]

Of course, this reworking of copyright laws will never happen.

Yay capitalism!

[amy]

Your guys' changes make sense to me, and I believe they would make sense to the average American, so all we'd need to do is get it voted on

FAITH IN DEMOCRATIC PROCESS PRZ

[No Sad Endings]

WTF? This is really dumb.

I can see it for print material (because people want to read the hardcover books, and we already have libraries that perform the same function) but not for music.

ummmmm, Amy, libraries have music and movies too... xD

Otoh, while I am generally a big supporter of the free information thing, I think this may well be taking it a little too far.

[amy]

ummmmm, Amy, libraries have music and movies too... xD

Otoh, while I am generally a big supporter of the free information thing, I think this may well be taking it a little too far.

ehhh but the checkout time is always like 1 week and the cd cases keep breaking and they don't have anything good

[Gundampilotspaz]

ummmmm, Amy, libraries have music and movies too... xD

Otoh, while I am generally a big supporter of the free information thing, I think this may well be taking it a little too far.

Information wants to be free, baby.

To be free

[Ceraziefish]

^And so GPS starts his solo music career.

ehhh but the checkout time is always like 1 week and the cd cases keep breaking and they don't have anything good

I've got some pretty sweet music from the public library, especially when I've been on the prowl for folk music type stuff. It's a simple matter of ripping the CD to your hard drive, one week is plenty of time for that

I'd have more faith in the democratic process if it wasn't controlled by corporations (can you imagine the smear campaigns that would go on if something like this ever actually made it to an election?) and a lot of people don't even know what file sharing rightly is.