Fwd: Please Stand Against the New Copyright Bill

[Ken O. Burtch]

See my Lone Coder blog, "If Free is Illegal, Who is the Pirate?"
(http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_august_2007.html) for a detailed look 
at why getting something for nothing isn't stealing.

Ken B.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:

> Colin McGregor wrote:
>> FYI:
>> 
>> Here is the e-mail I received from my MP re: Bill 61. Sigh... not
>> exactly against the bill, but not exactly for it either...
>> 
>
> This is probably going to piss off a lot of people, but I'm not (only) trying 
> to be the devil's advocate here, so I'm going to ask anyway:
>
> Isn't all this about us wanting something for nothing? I mean isn't someone 
> spending emotion, time, and money creating, developing and distributing 
> something that we want it for nothing. And, yeah, I know a lot of what we're 
> talking about is degrees. I mean when a single mother is fined thousands of 
> dollars for downloading a few songs for her kid it seems extreme. 
> Nevertheless, are we not still talking about someone wanting something for 
> nothing?
>
> Just because you get away with compact cassette taping LPs in the seventies, 
> burning CDs of LPs and CDs in the eighties, burning DVDs of movies in the 
> nineties, and downloading songs via gtkpod to iPod in the 00s, is one 
> entitled to this forever? Should we not be grateful we enjoyed the ride for 
> forty years?
>
> I know I sound like an idiot writing all this. I actually have read quite a 
> bit of the articles and viewed youtube clips referred to in emails from tlug 
> over the past few weeks, and even had a sit down with Charlie Angus. I just 
> find it hard to make up my mind on all this. For instance, I have recently 
> joined SOCAN and am writing and recording songs with a view to having them 
> published and picked up by recording artists. I feel I should at least 
> consider supporting the system that may (in part) support me some day.
>
> I'd be interested in your thoughts. Seriously.
>
> Chris
>
>> Colin McGregor
>
> <snip>
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