11-27-2010, 10:33 PM
(11-27-2010, 10:13 PM)seejay21 Wrote: Check this out:
http://store.bring4th.org/product_info.p...ucts_id=44
Note it is Copyrighted by L/L Research in 2001, and directly below that it says: "All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or information storage and retrieval systems—without written permission from the copyright holder." Or more to the point "don't steal it".
and ?
Quote:Robin Hood's lore is that he took from the rich, and gave to the poor. Downloading copyrighted material from a peer-peer or other torrent network is just the "taking from the rich" part.
the part you miss is that, the poor are the one who are doing the taking here.
according to the below statistic, 80% of, say, america, is poor.
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesameric...ealth.html
since, the top 1% in that statistic owns the majority of all goods and services (including arts creation sector) it means that the poor, are 'robin hoods' for themselves.
Quote:I don't have to wonder what I would do in France. I have actually been faced with the choice of life or death. I'm hear typing this now, so my choice should be obvious.
so, you would choose life and your family to live, over not 'stealing' from the feudal lord's fields.
Quote:Your logic of comparing life and death choices in 18th century France to stealing copyrighted material from the elite on a bit torrent network is not even remotely close to a fair analogy.
that is only because you think that the current conditionings and biases of the society you live in, are right and just.
back in 18th century france, someone could come to you arguing that stealing from the lord's field, is a sin. because it was god given right of the lords to rule, and in addition, it was tradition and law.
today, you are ok with 80-90% of all activities in any field of life being owned by 1% of the population, determining what happens in those aspects of life (leave aside what prices), and considering disobeying that structure, stealing.
the band you speak of, hasnt got any place in that spectrum. it is as nonexistent in the music scene, as a local tools shop owner is nonexistent in wall street.
you are the one taking normal, ordinary people with no feudal lordship powers, and impersonating them in the lords that rule this system.
ah and by the way - you should remember that, the need to laugh, listen to music, entertainment, are also natural needs of entities. allowing them to be monopolized is no different than allowing food to be monopolized in the long run.
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that being said, actually there are even people dying of hunger in west. or, dumpster feeding. while million tonnes of grain rot in warehouses, because those who control the market want grain prices up.