There are stock pictures like that one scattered all over their website.

If nobody pays for content people consume, there will be no money or incentive for people to produce with. But nobody wants to pay for it.

Now, advertising (eg. content for “free”) could solve some of the problems (like streaming shows off the Internet with embedded ads), but then the very same people who (I shan’t say _steal_) get if for free bitch about the ads.

As a content author myself, my work is dependent on funding. The only difference is, my performances are live (improv theatre) and I am able to pay my rent (well, the performance hall, anyways). Not so for someone producing content in a reproducible medium, like music, video and written works.

What the Pirate Party here isn’t trying to solve is how to optimize this divide, instead to just try and put up a wall to even further moralize piracy.

And while I don’t support big media throwing the gauntlet at end users, I see no reason how piracy is a good thing. It’s a consequence of the economic divide between what people perceive is the fair price and what publishers set to maximize their profits, only to boo-hoo their way to authorities when they see their content ripped online. It’s a matter of closing this gap – I’ve seen this happening in Slovenia with the Windows operating system. With the recent price drops and Microsoft making positive gestures and bringing incentives to end users, I’ve seen people buy more software while noticing the prices go down in sync (like the Win741 program for students).

If you don’t think it’s worth the buck, don’t buy it. There are plenty of other things in life to enjoy.

fun article, though.

>>> For building IT awareness in 2nd world countries (Slovenia), piracy should not be persecuted for private parties involved in piracy.

Statements like these are dangerous because they also undermine the basis of open source and other open licenses. That’s my main problem with endorsing “legalized P2P sharing”.

For building IT awareness in 2nd world countries (Slovenia), piracy should not be persecuted for private parties involved in piracy.

As for the 1st world countries…the market and law should take care of everything…it would probably even grow a big market of obfuscating ip lookup of all parties involved in piracy, within the legal system itself… but at least everybody would pay

We are all very happy to talk to them, each week we organize a number of events to which they can come and get themselves educated on the issues. They’re welcome to come and talk to us, about our problems and issues we’re fighting for.

They’re not present in our community and they don’t seem to be willing to take part in the established infrastructure of support and knowledge that has been already built.