First Proposing speech
Now that tune-downloading has outshined CD-buying, the time has come for us to think about our rights, concerning those practices. Indeed, since 2009 in France, laws have evolved in a way much tougher than before, and people can’t any more venture themselves on using illegal sharing platforms, as they used to.
But we believe that Hadopi (High Authority for the Broadcasting of Pieces and Protection of rights on the Internet) is misconceived, and we want to abrogate it. You would logically call us thieves, disrespectful of artist’s work. And we will show you that, as we ourselves are artists, nobody will be theft with our proposals, which are the most logical proposals about the subject...
by AMA
We will first tackle the reasons why Hadopi has to be repealed, and then we will propose a new way to protect people’s work, and to prevent pieces robbery using web platforms.
Now that tune-downloading has outshined CD-buying, the time has come for us to think about our rights, concerning those practices. Indeed, since 2009 in France, laws have evolved in a way much tougher than before, and people can’t any more venture themselves on using illegal sharing platforms, as they used to.
But we believe that Hadopi (High Authority for the Broadcasting of Pieces and Protection of rights on the Internet) is misconceived, and we want to abrogate it. You would logically call us thieves, disrespectful of artist’s work. And we will show you that, as we ourselves are artists, nobody will be theft with our proposals, which are the most logical proposals about the subject...
by AMA
We will first tackle the reasons why Hadopi has to be repealed, and then we will propose a new way to protect people’s work, and to prevent pieces robbery using web platforms.
First of all, we want to make things clear about the law we are talking about. You can find the whole official text here.
This law wants to make a graduate sanction for people using illegal downloading softwares. The aim of that is to prevent people of not buying masterpieces, what they would have done in a usual shop. But this law can’t be well applied for three main reasons.
On the one hand, accepting the law would imply that we accept the government to be aware of everything we do on our computers. Kind of 1984’s behavior, isn’t it? Big brother seems to be watching us again and again… People are not aware when you buy a CD, a film, or a book, so why should they be aware of you downloading a tune? Even if you do it in a legal way, it’s completely disrespectful of the unalienable rights of men, and must not be implemented in our societies.
On the other hand, the means are way too strong; I explain myself. The law suggests that when one is over the limit, and has received a prevention letter, an emergency letter, the government stops his internet access. This is a huge infringement in cultural resources. One knows that the Web is the greatest way of access to all the information people need, to a base of culture and history that can’t be contained even in all the books of Alexandria’s Library (in Egypt, for those who don’t know, remember the headlight). Depriving somebody of such a source is wanting people to come back in losing their time searching what they need everywhere, when they would have had everything in five minutes with Google.
Finally, we can think about what’s behind this law. People download too much illegally. Why ? because music and films are way too expensive. And here’s the real problem. People want to discover an artist by one or two songs, so they download it, in order, if they like it, to buy the CD. You could say that people will download the whole thing, but when it comes to quality and to facility of use (in a car for instance), there is nothing such a usual CD. And everyone know that artists are earning so well their living that they don’t want to give them more than they deserve. Have you seen today’s prices of concerts? It’s more than four times what it was ten years ago. And ten years after (Alvin Lee, if you’re watching…), people prefer spending money in concerts than in CD’s, and we understand them. So we can’t blame people for downloading one or two songs, even five, because the real music lovers will be enough at the show, to give their favourite artists the consideration they want (and also, but it’s very unfortunate, the money they want).
So, if you love music, and don’t want your rights to be infringed, think twice about Hadopi, and vote for us. Thank you all !
This law wants to make a graduate sanction for people using illegal downloading softwares. The aim of that is to prevent people of not buying masterpieces, what they would have done in a usual shop. But this law can’t be well applied for three main reasons.
On the one hand, accepting the law would imply that we accept the government to be aware of everything we do on our computers. Kind of 1984’s behavior, isn’t it? Big brother seems to be watching us again and again… People are not aware when you buy a CD, a film, or a book, so why should they be aware of you downloading a tune? Even if you do it in a legal way, it’s completely disrespectful of the unalienable rights of men, and must not be implemented in our societies.
On the other hand, the means are way too strong; I explain myself. The law suggests that when one is over the limit, and has received a prevention letter, an emergency letter, the government stops his internet access. This is a huge infringement in cultural resources. One knows that the Web is the greatest way of access to all the information people need, to a base of culture and history that can’t be contained even in all the books of Alexandria’s Library (in Egypt, for those who don’t know, remember the headlight). Depriving somebody of such a source is wanting people to come back in losing their time searching what they need everywhere, when they would have had everything in five minutes with Google.
Finally, we can think about what’s behind this law. People download too much illegally. Why ? because music and films are way too expensive. And here’s the real problem. People want to discover an artist by one or two songs, so they download it, in order, if they like it, to buy the CD. You could say that people will download the whole thing, but when it comes to quality and to facility of use (in a car for instance), there is nothing such a usual CD. And everyone know that artists are earning so well their living that they don’t want to give them more than they deserve. Have you seen today’s prices of concerts? It’s more than four times what it was ten years ago. And ten years after (Alvin Lee, if you’re watching…), people prefer spending money in concerts than in CD’s, and we understand them. So we can’t blame people for downloading one or two songs, even five, because the real music lovers will be enough at the show, to give their favourite artists the consideration they want (and also, but it’s very unfortunate, the money they want).
So, if you love music, and don’t want your rights to be infringed, think twice about Hadopi, and vote for us. Thank you all !
by AMA
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