Morlock Elloi on Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:10:14 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Call for support: Pirates of the Amazon, taken down by Amazon.com |
I beg to differ. My example was obviously artificial, as so far no one did it in thename of art, but it *is* comparable: - the creators of the Work do not benefit or detriment themselves in cash terms, other than the benefit propagating the artistic statement. - the public has a choice of doing 'legal' transaction, 'illegal' transaction, or no transaction at all (perhaps your funds are very tight; you approach ATM but still are considering it; then you see the free alternative.) - there is damaged party. Now the contention appears to be here - if distributor (Amazon) and publisher are damaged, the enlightened audience feels it's OK,as it's evil corporate private property that stiffles creativity. If creative individual's private property is damaged, that's Bad. So in essence a disagreement with my example is either a proposal for two kinds of private properties (one whose infringement is more ethical than the infrigment of the other one) or a proposal for abolishment of the private property. The real problem I am having is that it seems to me that it's the latter disguised as the former, which is plain hypocrisy. You either have (metaphorical) balls or you don't. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org