[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Supporting The Minister of Science and Technology of Portugal' statement

Mon May 10 15:32:20 CEST 2010

I actually think there is a relatively simple cloud computing answer to this
problem.

It would be fairly easy to have a location where a list of valid serial keys
would be deployed.  These could be traded as need be...essentially a token.
False use of a token would block the using system from again using that
software until certain administrative procedures were undertaken within the
cloud.  Double machine use, etc. would constitute false use.

This would be a relatively interesting commons...sort of an open iTunes.
People in the primary and in the after market could then charge whatever
they wanted for a valid key (including no charge)...much as the used book
sale function works on Amazon.com.

This would be simple...easy, voluntary and obviously open to people offering
whatever they want for free.  Once you own a key (which is in essence a
contract)...you own the right to execute code, see code, or whatever a key
entitles you to on the cloud.
The code won't execute without a valid key, etc.  Keys must be renewed
every 7 days by a touch to the cloud that registers an IP address and
machine ID or changes a random number assignment.

Ryan

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Subject: [fcf_discussion] Supporting The Minister of Science and Technology
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>  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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> The Minister of Science and Technology  of Portugal, Mr. Mariano Gago,
> stated that Internet "piracy" on a wide scale brings some positive
> developments, such as an  enormous increased value to producers who see
> their content distributed  all over the world. Mr. Gago added that this is
> not surprising, since  piracy has always been a source of progress and
> globalization.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJS3N9ThTm8
>
> Pressure from the content  industry lobby forced Mr. Gago to publicly
> retract  his statement.
>
> Actually, historic and contemporary facts  strongly support his claims. An
> important account is given by  professor Doron Ben-Altar in his book "Trade
> Secrets: Intellectual   Piracy  and  the Origins of American Industrial
> Power":
>
> "During the first decades of  America's existence as a nation, private
> citizens, voluntary    associations,  and government officials  encouraged
> the smuggling of   European inventions and artisans to the  New World. These
> actions   openly violated the intellectual property regimes  of  European
> nations.   [...]  What  fueled  19th  century  American  boom was  a  dual
> system  of principled  commitment to  an  intellectual property  regime
> combined  with absence of commitment to enforce these  laws.   This
> ambiguous order generated innovation by  promising  patent  monopolies. At
> the same time, by declining to  crack down on technology  pirates, it
> allowed for rapid dissemination of innovation that made  American products
> better and cheaper."
>
> Moreover, thanks to the small costs of European books for which copyright
> was  not paid, the USA managed to fight illiteracy of  the population at a
> faster rate than Europe.
>
> During the last century, American film-makers moved to  California in
> order to avoid paying expensive patent fees of Edison, and founded
> Hollywoodland. As a consequence, the American movie industry quickly
> became,  and still is, the most developed and powerful movie industry in
> the  world.
>
> Nowadays, non-commercial wide scale  Internet exchange is again beneficial
> for the market. It has managed to create and sustain  completely new
> businesses, as a massive quantity of truly  independent studies show:
> http://www.laquadrature.ne<http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Studies_on_file_sharing_eng>
> t <http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Studies_on_file_sharing_eng>
> /wiki/Studies_on_file_sharing_eng<http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Studies_on_file_sharing_eng>
> .
> It has also increased access to  knowledge, particularly amongst the
> disadvantaged and those in  developing economies.
>
> The following organizations express their regret for the claims by the
> copyright industry lobbies which manage to  silence any dissenting voice,
> including the one of a minister,any effort to think and contextualize the
> issues of the new forms of  returns for the creative community and the
> society in a way different from what is imposed by the  content industry.
>
> Attacking all new opinions and minds open to new models of economy will
> only bring high costs to the civil society and new  entrepreneurs but will
> not stop the inevitable progress of the digital age.
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