[pp.int.general] Correct word usage for PP.

[NingúnOtro]

El vie, 08-04-2011 a las 09:58 +0200, Maike Marrek escribió:
> Mikulas.Ferjencik schrieb:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Jakub Michálek proceeded with his project from the PPI conference regarding the Pirate Dictionary. The draft can be found here: http://int.piratenpartei.de/Pirate_Dictionary
> > 
> > Please feel free to comment, contribute, add expressions or suggest alternative wordings. 
> 
> Hi @ all,
> 
> "Digital Goods" is a well-defined (in contrast to "cloud-computing") 
> economic term, which highlights the difference to physical goods: their 
> characteristics are that they are manufactured and can be sold (it's a 
> marketable "good" in contrast to just "transmitted" information) and in 
> contrast to physical goods their key characteristic is the ability to be 
> copied without (more or less) further costs. A good can be sold, but 
> there's no coercion to sell it.

I would definitely not use the combined term "Digital Goods".

"Digital" is a state, an adjective of condition, expressing lack of
physical condition, 1es and 0oes you can not touch.

"Goods" on the other hand have always been the things you can touch,
physical merchandise.

Put the two together, and it will not please Richard Stallman ;) that
you insist in maintaining the peoples confusion.

I think a much more appropriate combination of terms, that fits OUR
lines of thought far better (do not choose your opponents favorite
battleground for the fight) is VIRTUAL ASSETS.

That can nicely fit the whole spectrum covered by our adversaries
favorite terms INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, worded exactly in the terms needed
to give US the moral upper hand in the talks.

They are as virtual as the "lost revenue" accounting of the music and
film industry ;) .

There is nothing intellectual to them (which is the term that enlists
authors on their side because it concedes them an highly estimated
status -even if the pay does not follow-).

It is no property like the house you need for shelter, so its importance
is lessened and its yuxtaposition to the real basic human rights
disappears.

And as assets they are clearly marked as something industries have
always fighted for to control, for all the wrong reasons ordinary people
mostly suffer, no the least to be charged whatever the monopoly wishes. 

> Further on there are information goods, which usually are divided in 
> "goods of use" like Software and "goods which are used" = "content" like 
> data, analysis and stuff like that.

With virtual assets, these are covered too, because digital becomes only
one of the possibilities.

> I'm not sure, if introducing a kind of Orwell's Newspeak will make it 
> easier to reach a greater audience and to clear up already existing 
> misunderstandings ;-)
> 
> Best
> Maike

Oh, by the way... Hi everybody!

First posting around here. Make sure you make a backup copy ;) .


Best regards.

NingúnOtro.

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