While the lawsuits being
defended by IBM and
filed by Red Hat are
likely to put an end to
The SCO Group's menace to the Free
Software community, I don't think simply putting the company out
of business is likely to prevent us from being threatened this
way again by other companies who are enemies to our community. I
feel we need to send a stronger message.
If we all work together, we can put
the executives
of the SCO Group in prison where they belong.
If you live in the U.S., please write a letter to your state
Attorney General.
If you live elsewhere, please write your national or provincial law
enforcement authorities. Please ask that the SCO Group be prosecuted for
criminal fraud and extortion.
Is it time to get the DMCA repealed? Do you think the RIAA has
gonetoo
far? Do you think it's wrong that Disney can get a law passed to keep Steamboat Willie from passing into the public domain - a law that makes it impossible for anyone to expect a newly copyrighted work pass into the public domain during their lifetime?
How about making copyright reform a central issue in the upcoming election?
Very likely most politicians don't know if the DMCA is fit to eat, feel Disney and the RIAA are important campaign contributors whose requests should be given priority, and music downloaders are simple thieves who deserve every bit of punishment they get.
You can change that. But it's going to take some work. But there are enough people sharing music in America - more people than voted for George Bush - that if you get off your collective asses and get active politically, you can get laws passed to get the RIAA off your back.
In
Change the Law, I explain that copyright is not a Constitutional right, like free speech. Instead copyright is allowed (but not required) to serve a useful purpose, a purpose which I feel has long since outlived its usefulness.
One thing I'd like you all to do today is to
write your elected representatives to ask their opinion of the current state of copyright law given its widespread abuse by organizations like the RIAA and MPAA, and to urge them to work towards copyright reform. Let them know your vote will depend on a positive response.
When you're done writing that letter, write to the other candidates for each office in the upcoming elections, to ask them the same thing.
Sixty million american peer-to-peer file traders have the potential to raise a lot of Hell with the politicians. I want every candidate to be peppered with questions about copyright reform at every campaign stop and in every press interview. I want the repeal of the DMCA to be discussed in the Presidential debates.
People marched in protest when Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested. Dmitry Sklarov is free now - but the law under which he was jailed is still on the books.
If you agree with me that something needs to be done about copyright,
I need your help.
I can understand why development is stopping, but it's important to understand that Speak Freely is still a valuable resource to the community.
Why? Because speak freely does voice over IP with hard encryption. I don't know of any other VoIP product that does that.
So if you care about your privacy, and have the time and skill, get the source code while you still can, and make a new generation VoIP product that addresses the problems in Speak Freely while continuing to provide hard encryption.
Is it time to get the DMCA repealed? Do you think the RIAA has
gonetoo
far? Do you think it's wrong that Disney can get a law passed to keep Steamboat Willie from passing into the public domain - a law that makes it impossible for anyone to expect a newly copyrighted work pass into the public domain during their lifetime?
How about making copyright reform a central issue in the upcoming election?
Very likely most politicians don't know if the DMCA is fit to eat, feel Disney and the RIAA are important campaign contributors whose requests should be given priority, and music downloaders are simple thieves who deserve every bit of punishment they get.
You can change that. But it's going to take some work. But there are enough people sharing music in America - more people than voted for George Bush - that if you get off your collective asses and get active politically, you can get laws passed to get the RIAA off your back.
In
Change the Law, I explain that copyright is not a Constitutional right, like free speech. Instead copyright is allowed (but not required) to serve a useful purpose, a purpose which I feel has long since outlived its usefulness.
One thing I'd like you all to do today is to
write your elected representatives to ask their opinion of the current state of copyright law given its widespread abuse by organizations like the RIAA and MPAA, and to urge them to work towards copyright reform. Let them know your vote will depend on a positive response.
When you're done writing that letter, write to the other candidates for each office in the upcoming elections, to ask them the same thing.
Sixty million american peer-to-peer file traders have the potential to raise a lot of Hell with the politicians. I want every candidate to be peppered with questions about copyright reform at every campaign stop and in every press interview. I want the repeal of the DMCA to be discussed in the Presidential debates.
People marched in protest when Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested. Dmitry Sklarov is free now - but the law under which he was jailed is still on the books.
If you agree with me that something needs to be done about copyright,
I need your help.
Thank you for your attention.
That's Why You Should Encrypt Your VoIP
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Feds Want to Tap VoIP
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Gentlemen do not read each others' mail.
-- Secretary of State Henry Stimson
Speak Freely is a free (public domain, available in source code form) voice over IP program that can use hard encryption, including "AES, Blowfish, IDEA, and DES with keys as long as 256 bits".
It's not the easiest program to use, but it does work well. It's development has been discontinued, but you can still get the source code if you get it quickly. I'd like very much to see someone pick up its development, or to at least use its technology in a new program.
While the US Constitution allows congress to create copyright, it doesn't require it to do so. Peer-to-peer filesharing, and burning copies of your buddy's CD collection could be legalized tomorrow if you can get the votes in Congress to repeal the copyright laws.
If you think that can't happen, consider that more Americans are sharing files with peer-to-peer applications than voted for George Bush.
The steps my article suggest you take to bring about copyright reform include:
Speak Out
Vote
Write to Your Elected Representatives
Donate Money to Political Campaigns
Support Campaign Finance Reform
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Practice Civil Disobedience
It is my objective that my article noticably impact the upcoming US presidential and congressional elections. I think that could happen if every US p2p user were to read the article by November. While the article is popular, it would have to get read far more frequently than is presently the case for sixty million Americans to have read it by november.
Many unsigned and independent artists provide free downloads of their music as a way to publicize themselves. I list many places to find them in my article
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads.
For example, iRATE Radio is a free (as in speech) downloader that fetches MP3s from websites that provide free, legal downloads. It uses collaborative filtering to learn your tastes and select songs based on the ratings of other users who like the same kind of music you do. iRATE's database of MP3 URLs has 46,000 tracks registered.
My article has a Creative Commons license. I urge you to copy and distribute it. In addition, I'm looking for help in translating it to languages other than english. The first such translation, to Romanian, was performed by an incredibly helpful fellow named Ciprian Mihet:
Legaturi catre Zeci de Mii de Download-uri Legale de Muzica.
That's why I want to get every US p2p user to read my article before the upcoming US elections, in November of this year. I want copyright reform - meaning much more than just the repeal of the DMCA - to be a central issue in the upcoming election.
iRATE radio is a GPLed Java program with native binaries (compiled with gcj) for Windows and Linux, and a Java webstart installer that runs from the JRE that comes with Mac OS X. From iRATE's homepage:
iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other people's to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music.
In July, iRATE's database held the URLs of 46,000 MP3 files, although I think the database has been temporarily reduced in size so that the ratings can work more effectively for the tracks that remain.
iRATE version 0.3 is coming soon, and needs help with testing. If you'd like to help test, subscribe to the
irate-devel mailing list and start trying out the testing builds. There's been a lot of work put into 0.3, but that means there's more that needs testing.
If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating
copyright with the file sharing programs, we
would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start
buying CDs directly
from the artists and seeing their shows instead
of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the
labels have chosen for us to listen to.
The RIAA would also have no cause to complain -
these music downloads do not infringe copyright because
the artists give you permission to download them.
Besides giving you lots of links to legal downloads, the article goes on to discuss how you can
change the law to make p2p filesharing of proprietary files legal. I think that could happen if I could get all sixty million US file traders to read the article in time for the November 2004 elections. So far
the article is getting read by about 500 people a day, but it needs to be read a couple of orders of magnitude more often between now and November if it's going to effect the election. Please read
What You Can Do To Help.
Please copy and distribute this article. It has a Creative Commons license.
I suggest repeal in my original post in a hypothetical way, in order to capture the reader's attention.
But my personal feeling is that copyright should be reformed, not repealed.
For example, while I feel that copyright should be allowed for software, I don't think it should be permitted for binary-only releases unless full source code is submitted to the copyright office, so that upon the expiration of the copyright, it can be released to the public domain.
While copyright in its current form has outlived its usefulness to society, I don't think it ought to be eliminated entirely. I think the copyright term of fourteen years provided by the United States' first Copyright Act is about right. That would allow artists and writers to profit from their work, while the shorter term would allow you to legally share music from your favorite bands of your younger days while you are still able to enjoy them.
While the United States Constitution allows Congress to enact copyright laws, it doesn't require Congress to do so. Copyright could be repealed, and file sharing made legal tomorrow if you could just get the votes in Congress to do so.
If you think this couldn't happen, consider that more Americans use p2p filesharing applications than voted for George Bush.
Change the Law, from my article
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads, discusses the background of copyright law in the United States, and suggests steps you can take to reform copyright law. Among the steps I discuss are to Speak Out, Vote, Write to Your Elected Representatives, Donate Money to Political Campaigns, Support Campaign Finance Reform, Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Practice Civil Disobedience
If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating
copyright with the file sharing programs, we
would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start
buying CDs directly
from the artists and seeing their shows instead
of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the
labels have chosen for us to listen to.
The RIAA would also have no cause to complain -
these music downloads do not infringe copyright because
the artists give you permission to download them.
The article has a Creative Commons license. Please copy and distribute it.
If you're a musician who offers free, legal downloads of your music, I will link your band's website from the article, at no cost to you other than the work it will take you to give the article a reciprocal link from anywhere on your website. To get your link, please follow the instructions in the
Links to Individual Artists section carefully.
Inquiring minds want to know: when I copy a formula to a new cell, the cell coordinates found in the formula are offset by the distance that I moved before pasting.
For example, if I have the formula "sum( c4:e4 )" and I copy it to the cell immediately beneath the original location, the formula in the new place becomes "sum( c5:e5 )".
What I want to know is how I can fix particular cell coordinates so they always stay the same when I paste a formula in a different place, while leaving other coordinates free to be offset that way.
An example of why I might want to do this is if I have a single cell containing a currency exchange rate. I pay bills in both the US and Canada, and would like to figure my budget in either currency, while having the exchange automatically calculated. But when I copy and paste the formula, I have to go back and fix up the coordinate of the cell with the exchange rate, because it gets offset.
While the United States Constitution allows Congress to enact copyright laws, it doesn't actually require it to do so. Sharing music files over p2p could be legalized tomorrow if you could just get enough votes in Congress to repeal copyright. You'd either need to also convince the president to sign the bill, or get a 2/3rds majority in Congress to override a veto.
Stranger things have happened. The United States Supreme Court recently overturned the last of the sodomy laws in the United States, a decision that at one time would have been inconcievable to the majority of Americans, but the gay community worked together patiently to make homosexuality completely legal.
Now, I want you to consider that there are over sixty million Americans practicing peer-to-peer file sharing. That's more people than voted for George Bush, and also more than the number of homosexuals in America. So it's not unreasonable that copyright could be repealed, or at least reformed.
I discuss the background of copyright law in the US and what you can do to make file sharing legal in
Change the Law, a section of my article
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads. The steps I suggest you take to make file sharing legal are to speak out, vote, write your elected representatives, donate money to political campaigns, support campaign finance reform, join the electronic frontier foundation, and to practice civil disobedience.
It is my objective that all sixty million American p2p users will read my article by the time of the 2004 election. I've got a long ways to go to reach that goal.
The article has a Creative Commons license. I encourage you to copy and distribute it. I'm also seeking help in translating it to other languages; a Romanian translation will be posted soon.
Thank you for your attention.
Here's where to get some tunes for your new player
on
Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed
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· Score: 4, Interesting
You don't need to spend your hard-earned cash at the iTunes store, or get into trouble with the RIAA if you read:
If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating
copyright with the file sharing programs, we
would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start
buying CDs directly
from the artists and seeing their shows instead
of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the
labels have chosen for us to listen to.
The RIAA would also have no cause to complain -
these music downloads do not infringe copyright because
the artists give you permission to download them.
Please read my article
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads. It is under a Creative Commons license - please copy and distribute it. I'm also asking for translations; a Romanian translation will be posted as soon as I'm done converting the translator's word document to XHTML.
If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating
copyright with the file sharing programs, we
would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start
buying CDs directly
from the artists and seeing their shows instead
of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the
labels have chosen for us to listen to.
The RIAA would also have no cause to complain -
these music downloads do not infringe copyright because
the artists give you permission to download them.
The article discusses at some length how you can work to make file sharing legal.
It has been Google's #1 hit for the query
legal music downloads for about three months now, and recently has been on the second page of hits recently for the much more popular query
music downloads.
Traffic to the article has been climbing steadily, especially since the RIAA lawsuits were filed. It's looking like my copy of the article will get about 19,000 page views this month.
Hmm... I wonder if he had to take most of his MP3s down because I mentioned him so prominently in the article. He didn't exactly ask me to mention him, I surprised him with it. Bandwidth charges could be a problem.
But there's still an MP3 of There's a Girl at the Deli on
Oliver Brown's IUMA page. It's one of my favorite pieces of his, actually.
If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating
copyright with the file sharing programs, we
would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start
buying CDs directly
from the artists and seeing their shows instead
of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the
labels have chosen for us to listen to.
The RIAA would also have no cause to complain -
these music downloads do not infringe copyright because
the artists give you permission to download them.
The copy of
Living with Schizoaffective Disorder that I have on my own website has much nicer presentation than was possible with Kuro5hin's copy, as well as a few photos.
If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating
copyright with the file sharing programs, we
would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start
buying CDs directly
from the artists and seeing their shows instead
of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the
labels have chosen for us to listen to.
The RIAA would also have no cause to complain -
these music downloads do not infringe copyright because
the artists give you permission to download them.
The article is under a Creative Commons license. Please copy and distribute it.
The copy on my website has particularly simple markup to enable easier copying.
The way Googlebombing works is that Google also uses the text of links to a page for matching. For example, a search for "dumb motherfucker" used to bring up a page that was quite supportive of President Bush.
If Operation Clambake were the #1 search hit, then it would be the result for the "I'm feeling lucky" button on google.
Yes I am in fact a shameless karma whore
on
SCO Roundup
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I am happy to report that the last time
I posted a link to my following article on Slashdot, the article received 1200 referrals from my comment:
Also, in the day and a half since posting the link a Google search for
"Let's Put SCO Behind Bars" went from 2190 to 3250 matches.
The article is under a Creative Commons license. Please copy it to your website, your weblog, or other message boards. The markup is very simple and the page completely self-contained to enable easier copying.
There is a
UBB code version for message boards that use that format. When I get some time I'll make a plain-text one suitable for email and usenet news.
My DeCSS mirror is all about Free Speech for programmers. It references a couple of appeals court cases that have held programming to be Free Speech, as well as one of Judge Kaplan's decisions that said it was not.
I have had the page online for quite some time now, yet am quite surprised to have yet to receive a DMCA notice about. My hosting service hasn't received one either. It's especially surprising considering that the page places in the first page of results at Google for
a search for content scrambling system. I get a few referrals from queries for "decss" as well, although the page doesn't rank so highly for it.
Perhaps an explanation for this phenomenon can be found in the following quote from another notorious criminal, which appears prominently on my page:
one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Absolutely everybody though, should read Henry David Thoreau's
Civil Disobedience. I understand that it inspired not only King and Gandhi, but also the Dutch resistance under the Nazis.
It's not long, being just twenty pages or so in dead tree form.
Here's a
Spanish translation.
It's not hard at all to find in paperback. My local used bookstore had editions from two different publishers that also included Walden for just three bucks apiece.
I read somewhere that Senator Joseph McCarthy, who instigated the infamous "witch trial" hearings by the Senate Committee on Unamerican Activities, was appalled to discover that Civil Disobedience, being considered a classic work of American literature, was standard issue for the libraries that the U.S. government operates around the world, I guess for overseas servicemen. He got all the copies removed.
Slashdot Mirror
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Let's Put SCO Behind Bars
From the page: Thank You For Your Attention.How about making copyright reform a central issue in the upcoming election?
Very likely most politicians don't know if the DMCA is fit to eat, feel Disney and the RIAA are important campaign contributors whose requests should be given priority, and music downloaders are simple thieves who deserve every bit of punishment they get.
You can change that. But it's going to take some work. But there are enough people sharing music in America - more people than voted for George Bush - that if you get off your collective asses and get active politically, you can get laws passed to get the RIAA off your back.
In Change the Law, I explain that copyright is not a Constitutional right, like free speech. Instead copyright is allowed (but not required) to serve a useful purpose, a purpose which I feel has long since outlived its usefulness.
I suggest steps you can take to bring about copyright reform, ranging from speaking out to practicing civil disobedience.
One thing I'd like you all to do today is to write your elected representatives to ask their opinion of the current state of copyright law given its widespread abuse by organizations like the RIAA and MPAA, and to urge them to work towards copyright reform. Let them know your vote will depend on a positive response.
When you're done writing that letter, write to the other candidates for each office in the upcoming elections, to ask them the same thing.
Sixty million american peer-to-peer file traders have the potential to raise a lot of Hell with the politicians. I want every candidate to be peppered with questions about copyright reform at every campaign stop and in every press interview. I want the repeal of the DMCA to be discussed in the Presidential debates.
People marched in protest when Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested. Dmitry Sklarov is free now - but the law under which he was jailed is still on the books.
If you agree with me that something needs to be done about copyright, I need your help.
Thank you for your attention.
Why? Because speak freely does voice over IP with hard encryption. I don't know of any other VoIP product that does that.
So if you care about your privacy, and have the time and skill, get the source code while you still can, and make a new generation VoIP product that addresses the problems in Speak Freely while continuing to provide hard encryption.
If you wonder why you should bother, read Why You Should Use Encryption.
Thank you for your attention.
How about making copyright reform a central issue in the upcoming election?
Very likely most politicians don't know if the DMCA is fit to eat, feel Disney and the RIAA are important campaign contributors whose requests should be given priority, and music downloaders are simple thieves who deserve every bit of punishment they get.
You can change that. But it's going to take some work. But there are enough people sharing music in America - more people than voted for George Bush - that if you get off your collective asses and get active politically, you can get laws passed to get the RIAA off your back.
In Change the Law, I explain that copyright is not a Constitutional right, like free speech. Instead copyright is allowed (but not required) to serve a useful purpose, a purpose which I feel has long since outlived its usefulness.
I suggest steps you can take to bring about copyright reform, ranging from speaking out to practicing civil disobedience.
One thing I'd like you all to do today is to write your elected representatives to ask their opinion of the current state of copyright law given its widespread abuse by organizations like the RIAA and MPAA, and to urge them to work towards copyright reform. Let them know your vote will depend on a positive response.
When you're done writing that letter, write to the other candidates for each office in the upcoming elections, to ask them the same thing.
Sixty million american peer-to-peer file traders have the potential to raise a lot of Hell with the politicians. I want every candidate to be peppered with questions about copyright reform at every campaign stop and in every press interview. I want the repeal of the DMCA to be discussed in the Presidential debates.
People marched in protest when Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested. Dmitry Sklarov is free now - but the law under which he was jailed is still on the books.
If you agree with me that something needs to be done about copyright, I need your help.
Thank you for your attention.
It's not the easiest program to use, but it does work well. It's development has been discontinued, but you can still get the source code if you get it quickly. I'd like very much to see someone pick up its development, or to at least use its technology in a new program.
-
Change the Law
While the US Constitution allows congress to create copyright, it doesn't require it to do so. Peer-to-peer filesharing, and burning copies of your buddy's CD collection could be legalized tomorrow if you can get the votes in Congress to repeal the copyright laws.If you think that can't happen, consider that more Americans are sharing files with peer-to-peer applications than voted for George Bush.
The steps my article suggest you take to bring about copyright reform include:
- Speak Out
- Vote
- Write to Your Elected Representatives
- Donate Money to Political Campaigns
- Support Campaign Finance Reform
- Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Practice Civil Disobedience
It is my objective that my article noticably impact the upcoming US presidential and congressional elections. I think that could happen if every US p2p user were to read the article by November. While the article is popular, it would have to get read far more frequently than is presently the case for sixty million Americans to have read it by november.If you agree with me, please have a look at What You Can Do to Help.
Thank you for your attention.
For example, iRATE Radio is a free (as in speech) downloader that fetches MP3s from websites that provide free, legal downloads. It uses collaborative filtering to learn your tastes and select songs based on the ratings of other users who like the same kind of music you do. iRATE's database of MP3 URLs has 46,000 tracks registered.
My article has a Creative Commons license. I urge you to copy and distribute it. In addition, I'm looking for help in translating it to languages other than english. The first such translation, to Romanian, was performed by an incredibly helpful fellow named Ciprian Mihet: Legaturi catre Zeci de Mii de Download-uri Legale de Muzica.
The article also discusses what you can do to make peer-to-peer filesharing of music legal. That's a realistic possibility, considering that more Americans share files with p2p apps than voted for George Bush in the last election.
That's why I want to get every US p2p user to read my article before the upcoming US elections, in November of this year. I want copyright reform - meaning much more than just the repeal of the DMCA - to be a central issue in the upcoming election.
iRATE version 0.3 is coming soon, and needs help with testing. If you'd like to help test, subscribe to the irate-devel mailing list and start trying out the testing builds. There's been a lot of work put into 0.3, but that means there's more that needs testing.
Please copy and distribute this article. It has a Creative Commons license.
But my personal feeling is that copyright should be reformed, not repealed.
For example, while I feel that copyright should be allowed for software, I don't think it should be permitted for binary-only releases unless full source code is submitted to the copyright office, so that upon the expiration of the copyright, it can be released to the public domain.
In the section of the article entitled Should Copyright Even Exist? I say:
If you think this couldn't happen, consider that more Americans use p2p filesharing applications than voted for George Bush.
Change the Law, from my article Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads, discusses the background of copyright law in the United States, and suggests steps you can take to reform copyright law. Among the steps I discuss are to Speak Out, Vote, Write to Your Elected Representatives, Donate Money to Political Campaigns, Support Campaign Finance Reform, Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Practice Civil Disobedience
Thank you for your attention.
If you're a musician who offers free, legal downloads of your music, I will link your band's website from the article, at no cost to you other than the work it will take you to give the article a reciprocal link from anywhere on your website. To get your link, please follow the instructions in the Links to Individual Artists section carefully.
Thank you for your attention.
For example, if I have the formula "sum( c4:e4 )" and I copy it to the cell immediately beneath the original location, the formula in the new place becomes "sum( c5:e5 )".
What I want to know is how I can fix particular cell coordinates so they always stay the same when I paste a formula in a different place, while leaving other coordinates free to be offset that way.
An example of why I might want to do this is if I have a single cell containing a currency exchange rate. I pay bills in both the US and Canada, and would like to figure my budget in either currency, while having the exchange automatically calculated. But when I copy and paste the formula, I have to go back and fix up the coordinate of the cell with the exchange rate, because it gets offset.
Thanks for your help.
More music downloads (mostly MP3 though) can be found in my article Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads.
The article has a Creative Commons license. Please copy and distribute it.
Stranger things have happened. The United States Supreme Court recently overturned the last of the sodomy laws in the United States, a decision that at one time would have been inconcievable to the majority of Americans, but the gay community worked together patiently to make homosexuality completely legal.
Now, I want you to consider that there are over sixty million Americans practicing peer-to-peer file sharing. That's more people than voted for George Bush, and also more than the number of homosexuals in America. So it's not unreasonable that copyright could be repealed, or at least reformed.
I discuss the background of copyright law in the US and what you can do to make file sharing legal in Change the Law, a section of my article Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads. The steps I suggest you take to make file sharing legal are to speak out, vote, write your elected representatives, donate money to political campaigns, support campaign finance reform, join the electronic frontier foundation, and to practice civil disobedience.
It is my objective that all sixty million American p2p users will read my article by the time of the 2004 election. I've got a long ways to go to reach that goal.
The article has a Creative Commons license. I encourage you to copy and distribute it. I'm also seeking help in translating it to other languages; a Romanian translation will be posted soon.
Thank you for your attention.
- Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
It has been Google's #1 hit for the query legal music downloads for three months, and has had 14872 hits so far this month.It has a Creative Commons license. You are encouraged to copy it.
A Romanian translation will be posted soon, kindly provided by Ciprian Mihet. I am actively seeking translations to other languages.
Here's the introduction:
From the introduction:
The article discusses at some length how you can work to make file sharing legal.It has been Google's #1 hit for the query legal music downloads for about three months now, and recently has been on the second page of hits recently for the much more popular query music downloads.
Traffic to the article has been climbing steadily, especially since the RIAA lawsuits were filed. It's looking like my copy of the article will get about 19,000 page views this month.
But there's still an MP3 of There's a Girl at the Deli on Oliver Brown's IUMA page. It's one of my favorite pieces of his, actually.
Thank you for your attention.
It's been #8 at Google for a while, for a search for schizoaffective disorder.
It was quite a life-changing event for me, to write that article.
It happens that many of the links in my article are to either Slashdot stories or Slashdot comments.
- The Church of Scientology
The way Googlebombing works is that Google also uses the text of links to a page for matching. For example, a search for "dumb motherfucker" used to bring up a page that was quite supportive of President Bush.If Operation Clambake were the #1 search hit, then it would be the result for the "I'm feeling lucky" button on google.
-
Let's Put SCO Behind Bars
Also, in the day and a half since posting the link a Google search for "Let's Put SCO Behind Bars" went from 2190 to 3250 matches.The article is under a Creative Commons license. Please copy it to your website, your weblog, or other message boards. The markup is very simple and the page completely self-contained to enable easier copying.
There is a UBB code version for message boards that use that format. When I get some time I'll make a plain-text one suitable for email and usenet news.
Thank you for your help.
I have had the page online for quite some time now, yet am quite surprised to have yet to receive a DMCA notice about. My hosting service hasn't received one either. It's especially surprising considering that the page places in the first page of results at Google for a search for content scrambling system. I get a few referrals from queries for "decss" as well, although the page doesn't rank so highly for it.
Perhaps an explanation for this phenomenon can be found in the following quote from another notorious criminal, which appears prominently on my page:
Perhaps this suggests to those who would send cease-and-decist letters that I would contest them vigorously, and I might appear to be a more reputaable defendant than Emmanuel Goldstein was.I have written more recent piece called Practice Civil Disobedience that you may enjoy reading.
Absolutely everybody though, should read Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. I understand that it inspired not only King and Gandhi, but also the Dutch resistance under the Nazis.
It's not long, being just twenty pages or so in dead tree form. Here's a Spanish translation.
It's not hard at all to find in paperback. My local used bookstore had editions from two different publishers that also included Walden for just three bucks apiece.
I read somewhere that Senator Joseph McCarthy, who instigated the infamous "witch trial" hearings by the Senate Committee on Unamerican Activities, was appalled to discover that Civil Disobedience, being considered a classic work of American literature, was standard issue for the libraries that the U.S. government operates around the world, I guess for overseas servicemen. He got all the copies removed.