Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war

[Alexander Terekhov]

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"Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war

Pizza in our time 

23 Sep 2010 11:31 | by Nick Farrell | posted in Software 

Open sauce guru Richard Stallman has called for everyone to get off file
sharing's case and has come up with some weirdie beardie advice as to
how the entertainment industry can make money without charging anyone.

According to IT News, Stallman claimed that artists and musicians were
"not entitled to" compensation from listeners, but governments could
introduce a tax to support their work.

Stallman seems to think that Governments have piles of dosh to give away
to rock stars.  Arts are usually the first to get the chop in government
restructuring as "more important things" such as education, health and
science usually get the dough.

However Stallman claims that governments could collect taxes and
distribute resources to authors or artists according to the cube root of
their popularity so "fairly successful" artists would be adequately
supported.

While this sounds all nice and utopian it does mean that recording stars
will be paid for by the state.  Therefore if they hack off the
government they would be denied state funding.   A situation where
Margaret Thatcher would have to support Billy Brag is not really a
sustainable vision.

However Richard thinks that artists, authors and musicians could
supplement their income by using a voluntary payment method that allowed
users to donate small amounts at the push of a button.

"A lot of people will push that button because it feels good to support
the artist," Stallman insisted.

This means that rock bands could increase their earnings by showing
themselves with hungry children or dogs on a string.

Stallman told the World Computer Congress in Brisbane that digital
society had to be "free" in order to be a benefit.

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 rich wargo - 23 Sep 14:59 .

This stallman is a idiot bolshevik. Another supremely useless parasite.

But then, artists have always been short-sighted. Gladly take money from
government, but then whine like spoiled sissy boys when government steps
all over their precious "freedom of creativity".

You dance with the devil, you dance to his tune."

Exactly.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/233002,stallman-calls-for-end-to-war-on-sharing.aspx

"Art tax

Stallman called for an end to the "global war on sharing", where the use
and distribution of software was controlled.

While artists and musicians were "not entitled to" compensation from
listeners, Stallman said governments could introduce a tax to support
their work.

He had two suggestions. In the first, governments would collect taxes
and distribute these resources to authors or artists according to the
cube root of their popularity so "fairly successful" artists would be
adequately supported.

Alternatively, artists, authors and musicians could use a voluntary
payment method that allowed users to donate small amounts at the push of
a button.

"A lot of people will push that button because it feels good to support
the artist," Stallman said.

"To end the war on sharing is an imperative," he said. "Its goal is bad
because sharing is good; sharing is the way we build a society." "

regards,
alexander.

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