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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I actually agree with some of what you say. Believe it or not I'm kind of one of those old school intenet hippies who believes "Information wants to be free". But where I draw the line is when someone else is profiting from it. It's one thing for a person to use a chair they bought however they wish or for a surfer who paid for a porn membership to rip the site for their own personal enjoyment but it's another for the industry scumbags to make millions from the theft of other's content. The latter is many times worse.
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at least get the quote right
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On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other
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For the most part these people you are defending aren't "internet hippies" who think "Information wants to be free". They are big time corporate scumbags making millions a year who are pushing small businesses consisting of ordinary people out by directly profiting from their hard work being stolen. That's all it really is. If you took away their profit do you think Manwin would still be keeping their sites up? Of course not. They are in it for the money not to make information free or some other noble quest. These people aren't heroes fighting for the "little people". Quite the contrary. They are huge major corporations now pushing independent operators out by making their hard work worth pennies on the dollar. They are basically profiting from theft and they aren't Robin Hoods as you seem to imply at times.
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sony sold there betamax for 1k each when they first came out
fair use is profitable
never said it wasn't
I teach people how to profit by being fair use friendly, i couldn't do what i am doing if there was no money in it.