Il 19/03/2011 16:20, Philippe Aigrain ha scritto: 
I hereby promise that, whatever are the conditions of legal commercial
offers, I will never cease to defend the right of each individual to
share digital works that s/he has with other individuals, in particular
by sendng them to friends, exchanging them through USB keys and making
them available on P2P file sharing networks. Copyright has nothing to
say about what individuals do in the non-market digital sphere and came
to apply to it only by a historical policy failure that is even more
urgent to correct than the natural failures of markets.

Philippe Aigrain

Hi Philippe,

I agree with you. I can't prevent myself to write that I am disgusted by this message of "dontmakemesteal", as if the problems were the price and the forms of fruition, thus a correction on those would make the copyright a "fair monopoly" for us, the good and clean "western consumers" (not citizens, consumers).

The copyright is a dangerous market distortion (artificial monopoly forced by gov'ts), an archaic tool to enforce censorship (and nowadays it is used everyday for censorship), an obstacle to creativity, a menace to access to knowledge for the less well-off and for the visually and reading impaired people, a form of imperialism and exploitation over developing countries and an instrument of huge and extensive social damages, including literal, physical sufference and deaths.

Pretending to solve all of the above with "Rentals should not exceed 1/3 of the cinema price" (and what is the cinema price?!), "no DRM" etc., at the same time affirming general legitimacy of copyright while calling sharing "stealing" is not even a step in the right direction, it is trifles & doddles at best or a worrying involution at worst.

Moreover, I vehemently reject this linguistic, legal and mind confusion between SHARING and STEALING.

Ciao,
Paolo