Posts by giovanni tiso
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Because, really, that is what this all comes down to: how do we decide if the use of technology is beneficial or negative? Against what yardstick do we measure?
Social benefit and protection of the rights and livelyhood of the artists must be paramount considerations surely. And to that extent, the monstruous profits of some of the existing publishers are not beneficial to either, and it may well be that the new environment will settle into something that works out better, and not just replace Times Warner with Apple wholesale.
The principle of the library is not a bad one: allowing as many people as possible to access works of literature, music and film at lttle or no cost, whilst compensating the authors of these works. Insofar as a digital library can reach a lot more people, it seems a very desirable outcome (and by the same token, I'm not against a certain degree of piracy if it means broadening access -I've certainly downloaded my (un)fair share). We're nowhere near close the 'how to look after the creators' part of the equation yet, in the arts as in journalism. The fact that for the moment things are going okay for musicians is not really a guarantee that it will keep on keeping on. And I am concerned about what happens when books come onstream.
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Hey, I proposed just such a debate. You got started, then immediately flipped into "downloaders are t3h evil" mode and we never recovered.
I'm not saying that downloader are the evil, I'm saying that it's not as simple as polarising the argument by reflexively espousing the contrary position of the evil corporations. "Adapt or die" is the shorthand for that, but I think I've said enough here.
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I would call it PA's 'plagiarism skirmish'. Or perhaps, like the Korean War, a 'police action'...
Come on, it was a domestic contingency operation at best.
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The integrity of the process?
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My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
When he finds out I published firstAre just about my two favourite lines in any song ever.
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Not on PAS, it seems...
That was a cause of eternal frustration on the copyrights thread, yes. I think we proved rather conclusively that we suck at finding a middle ground or even a common language on this thing.
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Giovanni - what happened over Garth George?
Take it away Hot Topic. Not a hot topic enough for the Herald editors it seems - GG is keeping his job.
suggesting Garth George and educated fleas are interchangeable
I don't recall saying educated.
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When Hans Petrovic, the film critic for The Press cut & pasted from the Guardian. That was the end of his job there.
birds can do it, bees can do it
even Garth George can do it...
let's do it, let's plagiarise -
if your customers have given you clear signals that they want a digital product and you are saying "Nope, no way, not going to happen", you kinda have it coming. It's not legal, or ethical, but you cannot say that you weren't warned.
Who are you, Fat Tony? Jesus this is embarrassing.
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How is that in any way a proportionate response?
It is not, nobody is saying it is. But we've GOT TO move on from the idea that we can assume only one of two positions, and refuse to allow that the technologies that mediate the circulation of creative works have very complex repercussions that need to be seriously debated. Saying that there isn't a problem, not even in principle, because copyright is an outdated idea and besides downloading ain't theft, and those big evil corporations should shut up and die, really is just as depressingly stupid as the opposite stance.