Fwd: Please Stand Against the New Copyright Bill

[Scott C. Ripley]

Ken,

as an author of a book...

are you fine with someone making (or do you make?) an electronic copy 
freely available?

Scott


On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Ken O. Burtch wrote:

>
> 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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