[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Brian McNeil]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:48 +0100, Christian Hufgard wrote:
> Félix Robles wrote:
> > Well, I agree with you on the critics against Christian. The thing is,
> > pirate parties don't think Intelectual Property is a good term, we refuse
> > it. Instead, we talk about author's rights. The authors have some rights,
> > but as RMS has said, they don't have (or shouldn't have) the right to stop
> > listeners/audience from sharing their music/work.
> 
> So why is music so much less worth to be protected than software? If I'd
> breach the GPL, Richard would be right in front of those who accuse me
> for.
> 
> Why has a GPL programmer more rights than a musician?

I think you are completely missing the point of the GPL. It implements a
philosophy of sharing within the current copyright legislation
constraints.


-- 
Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil
Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official
position of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 835 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/attachments/20091030/22f5f5ac/attachment.pgp>