As many of you know, I despise Intellectual Property. I think that if you have an idea, cure, concept, solution, artistic vision or anything else of this nature, you MUST SHARE it, FREE OF CHARGE. In fact, if you prescribe to the notion of collective conscience, you realize that it is UNETHICAL to restrict use of ideas, thoughts and solutions, let alone sell them.
Once "your" thoughts/ideas/concepts are out there, you pretty much have to accept the fact that they will be experienced and altered to enhance use and understanding...
Why am I writing about this? Well, This story talks about a French teen who will likely be facing charges because he translated the latest Harry Potter book and posted it on the internet. He basically made J.K. Rowlings' work more accessible to the world free of charge and now he's in trouble. I think this story can show how the use of Intellectual property keeps knowledge (amongst other things) for those that can afford or understand it thus keeping certain groups of people below the level of others who have access to intellectual property.
It's disgusting. Intellectual property- which in the US usually comes by stealing from those with less power (i.e. drug cures stolen from S. American countries via CAFTA)- keeps the world from collectively moving forward. If we have collective ideas and experiences, one person should not take the ideas and experiences and sell them back to the people that helped make them! It stops the world from progressing as a whole and limits knowledge and experience to those who can afford to partake (I won't even go into the racial issues here, but, please, KNOW THEY'RE THERE). Ick!!!!
I say we all need to violate intellectual property laws. I'd love to be in prison for spreading knowledge, free of Charge! So, go out, steal a book translate it for the world.
Fight the caging of knowledge and power...
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