Reply To: Political Statements
If you don’t believe that individuals can effect change, or that it’s Quixotic to try, I seriously feel very sorry for you. You must feel very powerless.
Personally, I believe it’s very possible for one person to effect positive change — by spreading ideas and setting an example.
As I have already stated above, we have two choices. Enforce authors’ rights and stop the rampant theft (and the scofflaw corporations that enable and promote it), or move away from a market economy in intellectual property. We cannot have a market for goods if we do not stop them from being stolen. But right now, piracy is illegal, and EFF is in the front lines fighting enforcement of the law and attempting to obstruct justice. EFF and its corporate cronies are harming artists immeasurably in the process. If we believe in the rule of law, we must condemn this.