[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Michel Bauwens]

I think both approaches are compatible and will be tried by different
people,

often it is the threat of racial fait accompli's, which actually creates the
possibility for reform, so these things usually go together,

Michel

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/6/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > well, the thing is, there is a difference between perception and reality.
> > Many artists and creators want to hold to IP, see Marco's reaction,
> because,
> > barring alternatives they see working, it's one of the few ways they see
> > they can get an income; and I also think, from having discussed the issue
> > with different student groups, that there is still a social consensus
> that
> > it's something useful.
>
> So it seems to me that the proper approach is to give the lie to all
> the pseudo-populist RIAA agitprop, by publicizing as far and wide as
> possible just how small a percentage of artists benefit significantly
> from IP, compared to the number who are inconvenienced by legal
> restrictions on sampling and mashups, and how little the average
> artist makes from IP.  It's exactly like the pseudo-populist
> Republican approach to the "Death Tax," acting like it's even a
> relevant issue to the overwhelming majority of farmers and family
> businesses.
>
> At the same time, dissatisfaction with the excesses
> > of the current regime is growing, and also slowly becoming the basis for
> > social action. So this is something that we can actually win, perhaps not
> > today, but in a few years. If abolishing totally is advisable, and a
> social
> > discussion and consensus acquirses, then it will happen, but that will
> take
> > considerably more time,
>
> I doubt it's feasible to work for a significant change in the laws
> from the perspective of social consensus.  It's far more
> cost-effective to promote stigmergic efforts to simply make the law
> unenforceable.  Even if the majority of the people come to disagree
> with the IP law regime, a majority of people support a lot of things
> that never appear on the radar because the bipartisan establishment is
> against them.  You could probably convince 90% of the people that IP
> was bad, and unless they felt that sentiment with such extreme
> intensity that they were willing to sweep every incumbent from office
> on that basis alone, change would still be effectively blocked by RIAA
> lobbyists writing the laws in secret, and industry representatives
> drafting trade laws in closed tribunals, and buying off Congressmen
> from both parties.
>
> The best way to change the law is to present the state with a fait
> accompli by which it is unenforceable.
> --
>  Kevin Carson
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