tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668850135625496359.post3342934383444564242..comments2021-02-17T03:25:54.097-05:00Comments on jim fouratt's REEL DEAL:Movies That Matter: Troubling Doc on Internet piracy surfaces at SXSW 2013 Jim fouratt's REEL DEALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16103315263176664535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668850135625496359.post-10107330812509890032013-04-04T23:30:21.956-04:002013-04-04T23:30:21.956-04:00Copyright and aggressive copyright enforcement are...Copyright and aggressive copyright enforcement are not prerequisites to being compensated for your work. Many musicians and authors put out their work on the Creative Commons License which allows for the open, free and legal distribution of creative works. ...and i mean PROFESSIONAL musicians, writers and software designers. All of Cory Doctorow's novels can be purchased as hardcover or downloaded freely.<br /><br />I feel that the RIAA's model of copyright which in actuality benefits the movie and record labels far more than the actual content creators is a failed business model that can only be upheld by state violence.<br /><br />I use free sofware - free as in free to copy and distribute, modify, redistribute because i feel it is unconscienable to use the state to prosecute people for sharing software. If you look on github.com you will find free software i have written. Look on my website - you will find some there. I am not a freeloader when it comes to software - i happily contribute OF MY OWN FREE WILL to free software producers not because the Business Software Alliance will come after me. Free software is a good business to be in. People pay for expertise and training.catskillmarinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00729944111014940365noreply@blogger.com