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The DotCommunist Manifesto - How Culture Became Property <br> And What We're Going to Do About it...
December 24, 2001 - 5:10pm -- Uncle Fluffy
hydrarchist writes: ""First ever for slash.autonomedia.org: A video link!
Listen to Eben Moglen, General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, convey some very bad news to those who love property! History hasn't gone away you see.
Incendiary, portentuous, and funny. A Fifty five minute prsentation: real video and quicktime formats.
http://www.ibiblio.org/moglen/
This is also a serious lecture on economics and reflection on anarchist production and distribution, historical in scope: from music to software and the problem of property... Can technology be the means to overcome alienation?
If the above description is not enough to have you salivate, here are the first lines of the lecture:
"
A spectre is haunting multinational capitalism -- the spectre of free information. All the powers of globalism have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.
Where are the advocates of freedom in the new digital society who have not been decried as
pirates, anarchists, communists?
Have we not seen that many of those hurling the epithets were merely thieves in power, whose talk of intellectual property was
merely an attempt to retain unjustifiable priveliges in a world irrevocably changing?
But it is acknowledged by all powers of globalism
that the movement for freedom is itself a power.
And it is high time that the movement for
freedom should publish our views in the face of the whole world
to meet this nursery tale of the spectre of free information with a manifesto of our own.
That's where it begins....."
And on the fate of the Entertainment complex.....
"The proprietary systems for the distribution of culture are the equivalent of the Trabant factories of the German Democratic Republic in the early 1990s.
They are profoundly inefficient.
They are utterly non-competitive.
They are expropriative of the interests of both the creators and the users, and they are going to be destroyed."
If this takes your fancy, as it should if you want to successfully depart from this world we must leave, read some of Eben's other work at his home page."
hydrarchist writes: ""First ever for slash.autonomedia.org: A video link!
Listen to Eben Moglen, General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, convey some very bad news to those who love property! History hasn't gone away you see.
Incendiary, portentuous, and funny. A Fifty five minute prsentation: real video and quicktime formats.
http://www.ibiblio.org/moglen/
This is also a serious lecture on economics and reflection on anarchist production and distribution, historical in scope: from music to software and the problem of property... Can technology be the means to overcome alienation?
If the above description is not enough to have you salivate, here are the first lines of the lecture:
"
A spectre is haunting multinational capitalism -- the spectre of free information. All the powers of globalism have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.
Where are the advocates of freedom in the new digital society who have not been decried as
pirates, anarchists, communists?
Have we not seen that many of those hurling the epithets were merely thieves in power, whose talk of intellectual property was
merely an attempt to retain unjustifiable priveliges in a world irrevocably changing?
But it is acknowledged by all powers of globalism
that the movement for freedom is itself a power.
And it is high time that the movement for
freedom should publish our views in the face of the whole world
to meet this nursery tale of the spectre of free information with a manifesto of our own.
That's where it begins....."
And on the fate of the Entertainment complex.....
"The proprietary systems for the distribution of culture are the equivalent of the Trabant factories of the German Democratic Republic in the early 1990s.
They are profoundly inefficient.
They are utterly non-competitive.
They are expropriative of the interests of both the creators and the users, and they are going to be destroyed."
If this takes your fancy, as it should if you want to successfully depart from this world we must leave, read some of Eben's other work at his home page."