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

Mon May 10 19:17:54 CEST 2010

sounds like you are advocating DRM, unpopular already for paid items, for
free items?

it may be a technical solution, but I doubt it will be very popular amongst
the sharing community,

Michel

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> From: fCforum <info at fcforum.net>
>> Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM
>> Subject: [fcf_discussion] Supporting The Minister of Science and
>> Technology of Portugal' statement
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>>
>>  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>> (Sign it while you send it)
>>
>> 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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