Free ©ultutre?
In Lawrence Lesig's reading 'Free Culture...', one line that has intrigued me immensely is "..the consequence of this legal uncertainty, tied to these extremely high penalties, is that an extraordinary amount of creativity will either never be exercised, or never be exercised in the open". This statement has been made by Lesig in regards to the 'war-on-piracy'; something I have never really stopped to think about, hearing and reading the media about law-suits from major corporations on people for supposed copy right infringments via downloading music, movies, etc.
What really caught my eye was how Corporations were getting permission from the courts to get ISP's, so they see what people have been downloading in hopes of being to take legal action and effectivelly financially crippling people whose only crime was downloading music, movies, etc. I understand that pirated music and movies is making the movie and music industry lose out on money and that their actions are to make examples of these 'war-on-piracy-casualties'. The penalties incurred by some people through the courts can't seriously be justified compared to other crimes that are committed.
However I think that it doesn't necessarily mean that they lose out on money, whether people use p2p software programme's to share music and movies, I don't think that people will stop going to the movies and concerts. The internet is a great place for business and a great place to share information. Look at the success of bands like the Arctic Monkeys whom used myspace to get themselves out to potential audiences. This sharing files on the internet of whatever is something that has been happening for centuries between the only difference is that we have found a new and better to facilitate this sharing in ways and at speeds we were previously unable to.
This is issue is quite the conundrum as Lesig claims has the potential to destroy "free-culture" and having repercussions on the creative works of people for instance, I can't remember the exact name of the play but in tutorial Kevin mentioned a production musical which was going to be based around the movie Silence of the Lambs, which was quashed due to copyright issues. I believe that we must find common ground to suite both sides, a possible way for regulating file sharing; however that in it self is another issue altogether.
-RIX
What really caught my eye was how Corporations were getting permission from the courts to get ISP's, so they see what people have been downloading in hopes of being to take legal action and effectivelly financially crippling people whose only crime was downloading music, movies, etc. I understand that pirated music and movies is making the movie and music industry lose out on money and that their actions are to make examples of these 'war-on-piracy-casualties'. The penalties incurred by some people through the courts can't seriously be justified compared to other crimes that are committed.
However I think that it doesn't necessarily mean that they lose out on money, whether people use p2p software programme's to share music and movies, I don't think that people will stop going to the movies and concerts. The internet is a great place for business and a great place to share information. Look at the success of bands like the Arctic Monkeys whom used myspace to get themselves out to potential audiences. This sharing files on the internet of whatever is something that has been happening for centuries between the only difference is that we have found a new and better to facilitate this sharing in ways and at speeds we were previously unable to.
This is issue is quite the conundrum as Lesig claims has the potential to destroy "free-culture" and having repercussions on the creative works of people for instance, I can't remember the exact name of the play but in tutorial Kevin mentioned a production musical which was going to be based around the movie Silence of the Lambs, which was quashed due to copyright issues. I believe that we must find common ground to suite both sides, a possible way for regulating file sharing; however that in it self is another issue altogether.
-RIX
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