[pp.int.general] [SAB] Research Survey.

[Scott Elcomb]

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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Marko Mitrovic <archamond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 10, 2012 8:14 AM, "Jay Emerson" <jemers2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If it's not free, steal it.  Sorry, I'm a pirate so sometimes I just say
>> these things out loud.
>
> So true. Lets not forget how we all became Pirates :)
>
> Just it's not stealing, it's sharing :P

FWIW, that's not how I became a Pirate.

I came to political piracy by way of Free/Libre and Open Source
Software (FOSS) and it's related legal issues (particularly copyright,
software patents, and international trade agreements).  I do
sympathize with the sharing viewpoint - 25 years ago, my friends and I
swapped disks, books and magazines all the time in our rush to learn
programming and how to create cool new things with our computers.

A couple years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Peter Salus, who'd
come to see a talk of mine and to introduce his new book "The Daemon,
the Gnu, and the Penguin".  This is one of my favorite books, not so
much because he signed my copy as for the fact that it explains a lot
of what happened in the tech world that lead to the current state of
technology law. It's also available under a CC license:
<http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859>

I really don't do much p2p or filesharing at all, unless it's an
openly licensed work (eg FOSS, CC, PD) like a Linux distro, a new
Blender Foundation video or Cory Doctorow's latest book.

Best regards,
-- 
  Scott Elcomb
  @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca

  Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems
  http://code.google.com/p/atomos/

  Member of the Pirate Party of Canada
  http://www.pirateparty.ca/