Piracy
If we surf the Internet, we watch the TV, we listened to the radio or we read the newspapers, in brief, we do not live disconnected from the world, I will be right if I say that "piracy" is a subject that we are sick and tired of hearing to.
When we use the word piracy, we all know what we are talking about, the illegal sales of music. But some of you probably will have thought about some file sharing networks like eMule, Kazaa or Gnutella. Not being seeing with good eyes from music publishers or many artists does not mean that using them is piracy, at least in Spain.
When this topic is object of discussion another one arises, the canon, paying money to authors and music publishers when we buy blank CDs despite they are not going to be used to burn Music. Websites writes more about it than of hunger, war or contamination. Even me, an anonymous citizen, writes about it. I have never seen such mobilization for a thing that has much less impact to their economies than the price of water, electricity or houses. But this kind of things, people united to protest, are always a reason for joy, even more when we share their claims.
Whenever I read forums where there are people who justify piracy saying that "because Music is expensive and poor quality (not recording, they refer to compositions) they buy pirate" and as it is normal I got amazed O_O. Oh! Excellent argument. So because of such mediocre facilities of this apartment and the neighbourhood in which it is located, I am not going to pay you the rent, however I am going to pay ten times less to this other gentleman who is in the door of the apartment block in order to let me pass, because after all your apartment did not seem too bad. And you not complain, your still can rent the apartment to another person; there is enough space here. It’s clear that this comparison is unequal but it helps to not get confused. Music publishers and authors are being robbed and, in general, society looks to other side.
We are not going to tell how obscure can be the musical business, in which music publishers limit market to reduce our freedom to choose, limit the variety of artists, only promote what they want, and, in addition, they put anti-copy systems that avoid the normal use of products. We already know that. Discussion on this subject is inevitable, but is only one side of the problem.
Our constitution, approved by referendum, already contemplates the protection of author rights, so if a situation, in which these rights are being harmed, occurs the government has to look for a solution and if it is necessary to write laws. But they don’t have to cross the line. The canon on VHS or Cassette had "certain" sense, but in the case of the CD it is completely nonsense.
I hope that politicians will stop what they are doing, step back and think again.
PD: In Spain the interchange of music by networks P2P, as eMule, is not a crime, although, they are taking in consideration measures to compensate the "losses" that this new situation causes to the business.
When we use the word piracy, we all know what we are talking about, the illegal sales of music. But some of you probably will have thought about some file sharing networks like eMule, Kazaa or Gnutella. Not being seeing with good eyes from music publishers or many artists does not mean that using them is piracy, at least in Spain.
When this topic is object of discussion another one arises, the canon, paying money to authors and music publishers when we buy blank CDs despite they are not going to be used to burn Music. Websites writes more about it than of hunger, war or contamination. Even me, an anonymous citizen, writes about it. I have never seen such mobilization for a thing that has much less impact to their economies than the price of water, electricity or houses. But this kind of things, people united to protest, are always a reason for joy, even more when we share their claims.
Whenever I read forums where there are people who justify piracy saying that "because Music is expensive and poor quality (not recording, they refer to compositions) they buy pirate" and as it is normal I got amazed O_O. Oh! Excellent argument. So because of such mediocre facilities of this apartment and the neighbourhood in which it is located, I am not going to pay you the rent, however I am going to pay ten times less to this other gentleman who is in the door of the apartment block in order to let me pass, because after all your apartment did not seem too bad. And you not complain, your still can rent the apartment to another person; there is enough space here. It’s clear that this comparison is unequal but it helps to not get confused. Music publishers and authors are being robbed and, in general, society looks to other side.
We are not going to tell how obscure can be the musical business, in which music publishers limit market to reduce our freedom to choose, limit the variety of artists, only promote what they want, and, in addition, they put anti-copy systems that avoid the normal use of products. We already know that. Discussion on this subject is inevitable, but is only one side of the problem.
Our constitution, approved by referendum, already contemplates the protection of author rights, so if a situation, in which these rights are being harmed, occurs the government has to look for a solution and if it is necessary to write laws. But they don’t have to cross the line. The canon on VHS or Cassette had "certain" sense, but in the case of the CD it is completely nonsense.
I hope that politicians will stop what they are doing, step back and think again.
PD: In Spain the interchange of music by networks P2P, as eMule, is not a crime, although, they are taking in consideration measures to compensate the "losses" that this new situation causes to the business.
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