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The US Pirate Party answers to the question "Do you support digital piracy?" in its FAQ the following:
>We do not think that calling the sharing of digital media “piracy” or “theft” is the correct way of looking at the issue. The free, open access to media that “pirate” sites provide is valuable to society in the way that public libraries are, and it’s a problem that they are against the law. The Pirate Party affirms that current copyright law is not good for the public or for creative professionals, and only actually benefits a small minority of corporate executives. We support reforms to copyright law which legalize the freedom to share, while more effectively helping creative professionals make a living.
What is your opinion on this point of view? Is copyright law as it is today good and right? Do you think sharing copyrighted content is morally wrong? I have to say I mostly agree with them. From my perspective, internet "piracy" is a victimless crime. As you can create an infinite amount of digital copies, nothing is lost or "stolen" on the creators' side.
Here's our new game/productivity tool/movie, here are some trailers / demo videos, here's the manual, we want to earn 10 Million € with it, send us money, as soon as we have 10 Million € we will release the tool without any drm or licence restrictions for everyone in the world to enjoy. If we don't reach 10 Million € within a year, everyone gets their money back.
Two years later: Oh, you have trouble running our SW on Win 11, of course we can fix that, send us 1 Million € and we'll release a new version without any drm or licence restrictions for everyone in the world to enjoy.
Copyright law is a weird relic from the times where it was possible to easily sell someone else's content without being found out.
Basically free flow of information online means that it's extremely easy now to find who the real author is. So copyright law is kind of outdated.
Not to mention that copyright law usually protects publishers more than authors. Note again that with the internet, the entire job of the publishers has become outdated: having a publisher doesn't grant you any more outreach as it used to, since everything is accessible to everyone anyway.
>If it were abolished there would no longer be any way to fund big budget entertainment and hardly any artist would be able to make a living from their work
I don't believe that this would be the case. Donation based payment systems as well as "pay as much as you want" already work well for smaller platforms like Bandcamp for example, and there is no greedy middleman executive who does nothing, but makes millions. I agree that abolishing copyright can't be the only step, you have to complement it by creating new ways for creators and artists to get fairly paid. And before even those general topics are handled, it would be important to decriminalize sharing of digital media as it happens through torrenting, usenet etc. as long as the people who share it make no profit with it.
copyright is part of intellectual property.
Intelectual property is fair at theory because it gives author a personal monopoly over a creation FOR SOME TIME so he can profit from his creation but law was not created to overexpoliting (the work) and privating the public from it because the author used other sources to create his stuff and public has right to eventually use it too, so, it must be protected, but the truth is that law has been corrupted by corporations:
Problem is Big Corporations like Warner and stuff pay lobbys in all "wect" countries to increase the years of the legal monopoly, nowadays it's somethign so insane like 100 years AFTER the authors death(Mexico), it was only 20 years when original intellectual law was created.
I guess this happens in every wect country because International Laws
also Corporations make a lot(all) of their monies with Intelectual Property so they tend to concentrate more and more like Disney. They are leading humanity to a medieval era where no one can use cultural goods to create something new because everything "belongs to the corporations"
IMO 60's music(and all cultural copyright) and even some of the 80's is already on public domain ,but truth is you'll go to jail if you use it without permission because Corporations want to exploit those creations for eternity, something absurd tbh.
checkout Mickey Mouse Liberation Front and stuff.
tl;dr
Intelectual property is good but only if author can profit for a FAIR amount of time, I would vote for 10 year.
that would apply to ALL intelectual property.
we need stuff to flow, life finds a way !
