<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/1 Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"> Perhaps, if flat rate replace copyright monopoly, probably is more useful<br>
use the money to support cultural programs in general than copyright<br>
industry. If copyright run together this new tax, I don't know a reason to<br>
support this tax.<br>
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</div>The idea is that one new law would legalize file sharing (including on<br>
the Internet) and establish this new tax.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
So, I think is priority in Brazil, first,<br>
the decriminalization of copyright infringement, not impose a new tax to<br>
people.<br>
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</div>The idea is that the new tax makes possible the decriminalization (and<br>
legalization) of sharing copies. Thus, sharing would no longer be<br>
infringement.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div>So, need to remove<font size="2"> Berne Convention</font>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works</a><br>
<br>I had a hope in CUBA, unfortunately they signed...<br><br>I
have a belief that filesharing legalized do not hurts culture, in
contrary, so isn't necessary a new tax to balance the "lack of culture
development". For example, many speeches of industry is that
filesharing is killing culture or piracy is killing music or home
cooking is killing restaurant industry... This is not true. <span lang="en"><span title="">And I would no longer feed this </span></span><span lang="en"><span title="">bankrupt </span></span><span lang="en"><span title="">industry.</span></span>