Comments on: The Pirate Party http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/05/02/the-pirate-party/ Lowell Politics and Lowell History Tue, 21 May 2013 01:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: C R Krieger http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/05/02/the-pirate-party/comment-page-1/#comment-13525 C R Krieger Thu, 03 May 2012 17:35:06 +0000 http://www.richardhowe.com/?p=15106#comment-13525 I think IP needs to be looked at.  The artists and their producers should have their fair share.  However, I believe the current Copyright laws provide more than a fair share—and thus stifle creativity. Further, the recording industry failed to use technology to liberate its audience.  We went from the 78 to the 45, with one desired track and something the record producer stuck us with.  Popular music went to the 33 1/3 and then to tapes and then CDs.  The industry could have sustained itself by letting people cut their own tapes and CDs at music stores.  It didn't.  Acting in a rapacious manner, it stuck us with stuff we didn't want as the price for buying what we did.  Humans being what they are, people moved to get around this abuse.  Now we have iTunes. Laws need to adapt to society and to technology and the Copyright laws are not adapting. I can see the reason for the Pirate Party. Regards  —  Cliff I think IP needs to be looked at.  The artists and their producers should have their fair share.  However, I believe the current Copyright laws provide more than a fair share—and thus stifle creativity.

Further, the recording industry failed to use technology to liberate its audience.  We went from the 78 to the 45, with one desired track and something the record producer stuck us with.  Popular music went to the 33 1/3 and then to tapes and then CDs.  The industry could have sustained itself by letting people cut their own tapes and CDs at music stores.  It didn’t.  Acting in a rapacious manner, it stuck us with stuff we didn’t want as the price for buying what we did.  Humans being what they are, people moved to get around this abuse.  Now we have iTunes.

Laws need to adapt to society and to technology and the Copyright laws are not adapting.

I can see the reason for the Pirate Party.

Regards  —  Cliff

]]> By: Ike Sharpless http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/05/02/the-pirate-party/comment-page-1/#comment-13522 Ike Sharpless Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:50 +0000 http://www.richardhowe.com/?p=15106#comment-13522 I enjoy following your blog on my Google Reader feed, and thought I should chime in on this - I'm an adjunct political science instructor at UML (ikesharpless.pbworks.com), and JP is actually a former student of mine. Partially I think he's running on the Pirate ticket precisely so he can get some press for breaking ground. His views on IP are a bit to the left of mine, but he's a smart, caring, and thoughtful guy who I think would make a great representative. I enjoy following your blog on my Google Reader feed, and thought I should chime in on this – I’m an adjunct political science instructor at UML (ikesharpless.pbworks.com), and JP is actually a former student of mine. Partially I think he’s running on the Pirate ticket precisely so he can get some press for breaking ground. His views on IP are a bit to the left of mine, but he’s a smart, caring, and thoughtful guy who I think would make a great representative.

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