Big Business is acting like it can just pimp slap a few senator and congressmen around give ‘em a good load of money and get whatever law they need to protect their out of date business models.
They say that online piracy is bleeding them dry and they must stop it now before the economy suffers more.
Granted you should be able to make money, but you don’t have the right to create legislation to stifle the person who builds the better business model.
Stealing is stealing and piracy of material that has a copyright is stealing. I get it I understand that argument.
So you go after that person.
They argue that there are too many people stealing that it will cost too much to deal with them all through normal legal channels.
So the real problem is that your business model saw the changing landscape of the digital age and did not do anything to adapt to that landscape.
You know it isn’t like the internet just sprang out of the woods one day and said here I am. It has been around since the 60’s yeah the internet is a hippy that’s why it likes to be free.
But Corporate America is the Flattop no fun guy who wants it all.
The legislation that our Congress and Senate are considering giving into will enable big business to shut down entire sites for misuse of copyright.
So you know those songs you love to share on facebook, well that just got facebook shut down and you are going to be sued for thousands of dollars for misuse of that copyrighted material.
The RIAA, MPAA have tried to sue every advancement in technology out of existence because they don’t adapt their business model
Today a person who has a friend with a talent for directing a well put together music video can get his friend’s band a viral video and then set up a website to distribute that music and or video without the use of the RIAA.
A person can make a movie and have it distributed with out signing with a major motion picture studio.
Then the person owns the copyright to that material and that is the real issue not that piracy is killing their profits but that these industries are no longer providing a service that is needed and in most cases does not provide the consumer with a product that they want to buy.
Itunes and the like do understand a better model. They only charge you for the songs you want. The RIAA has been in constant pissing contests with Itunes because of the pricing issue. Steve Jobs, wanted to see a library of songs available for download that was massive and largely affordable stating that even at .05 cent a song if you sell a million copies of the song it is a lot of money and it didn’t cost you anything in comparison to make it available to mass market like a CD does now.
Just for an example if that million copies sold represents a single person each that is less than one percent of the entire US population buying a song. Imagine if you were really massively appealing and sold like 20 million copies of the song that is still not even 10 percent of the country.
That is where the problem lies, these old business models don’t want to change and they don’t want to share profits either.
The thing is that people are making stuff on their own with out a corporate job and copyrighting it and own the technology themselves.
Used to be to be able invent some thing you had to be working with the corporations and because you were using their resources and their shared technology they owned the product you invented.
It doesn’t work like that anymore and the giant corporations are pissed off, so pissed off that they want to control the single largest communications system in the world, the internet.
The bills SOPA and PIPA will give them the ability to shut down whole search engines if they produce search results with links with possible infringements to copyrighted materials.
Google could be shut down by a CEO of a motion picture studio.
It won’t stop with that do you have a photo of yourself wearing a team jersey from a professional sports team? How about a hat or a t-shirt?
You could be sued for posting that photo because you don’t own that logo and you aren’t licensed to promote that product. So pay us a licensing fee or be sued. But first we are going to shut down your website and anyone who has linked to your website. They may even be sued with you.
This is not a slippery slope argument big business thinks they can control everything they want with the passage of legislation to further empower them to control information and control what you will be exposed to, thus controlling what you know exists and that will be only the things that they own the copyrights too and nothing else will be allowed to thrive.
It is called censorship and it has to be stopped.
Tell your congressman or senator that you do not support SOPA and PIPA that these pieces of legislation do not serve the best interest of a free enterprise system and are wrong. There are legal measures in place already to handle the problems they just don’t give the business the control they want over the business landscape.
Adapt or die used to be the approach to business, you make a better product, you make a better services standard you don’t sue your competition out of existence and then force the passage of legislation that will give you the control to decide what gets to advance and what does not get to advance.
You can do your part by going here
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet
or here
http://tinyurl.com/writetocongress
The latter will send an email to the congressman or woman from your district.
If you like a censorship free internet you have to speak up.
Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely
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