Filesharing propaganda

This page is created to keep the political stuff out of the page Filesharing.

The reason this is Sweden centered isn't because I'm Swedish, but because the issue is biggest here and the world wide nerd-magazine follow this closely: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/13/1953255

In USA all the politicians are bought by the copyright monopolists so the issue is dead there until the gun-lobby realize that information is a weapon and that the constitution gives them the right to share it.

In the rest of the EU the issue is about to wake up, and in most of the rest of the world no one gives a shit and copies anyway.

Serious articles about the matter

Karl Sigrid, member of the Swedish Parliament representing the Moderate Party (It's a liberal, business friendly, right wing party that is against high taxes) saying that legalizing the non-commercial sharing is the only solution:
http://sigfrid.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/decriminalize-file-sharing/

Rick Falkvinge, pirate leader, comment on the current battle in Sweden:
http://www.p2pconsortium.com/index.php?showtopic=15274

RIAA (one of the monopolists' organization that demands that everything you do on Internet should be monitored and that their members have unlimited rights forever to their information): All copying is stealing. We own you because you have memories about copyrighted stuff that we have monopoly on in your brain. (As written above by Rick, they have nothing useful to say at all, so it's not worth listening to them.)

Organizations similar to RIAA exist in almost all countries and for other contents, but I haven't seen anything worth reading from them. RIAA is one of the worst, but all their sister organizations' views are that if there are some positive sides to sharing, it is up to the monopolist to give out permits for that. Their customers or third parties should have no right at all, even if I think that it would benefit the industry if more was shared.

How should producers survive?

Well, very well. I suggest you listen to this speech for TV-series producers:

www.elfpack.com/stuff/FutureOfBitTorrent.avi.torrent

So who will die if sharing is allowed?

Obviously companies selling the right to download files. But there are still plenty of opportunities to sell advertising and sell the right to easily find what people want.

And selling CDs and DVDs is simply something that isn't needed anymore. Go and sell something people need instead! We can copy the stuff on our own. Selling CDs and DVDs will be just as obsolete as copying books by hand.

Movie theatres will not die just because you can download the movie from the net. It's even better for theatres when someone you know already have seen the movies and knows what you should see when you go there. Books will not die because you can download them either.