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Wired Magazine “Doesn’t Get It”
This month’s issue of Wired Magazine had an article in it about LaLa, a CD swapping service.
In the article, Wired’s Cliff Kuang wrote “The arrangement exploits a loophole in copyright law: While distributing duplicates is verboten, it’s perfectly legal to trade your own property.”
The fact that the world has become so confused and brainwashed by copyright made me rather angry, so I decided to write a letter to the Editor of wired. My letter is below:
I am a subscriber to Wired magazine (or more specifically, my wife is). While reading over the issue this month, I saw a line in specific that brought me nearly to a rage.
Specifically, in Cliff Kuang’s article about Lala the line “The arrangement exploits a loophole in copyright law: While distributing duplicates is verboten, it’s perfectly legal to trade your own property.”
The world has been brainwashed by the concepts of “Intellectual Property” far too long, and this line has proven the point exactly. “Intellectual Property” is a fallacy, it specifically refers to three separate things, patent law, copyright law and trademark law. For years the RIAA and other copyright trolls have been trying to equate “sharing” with “stealing” (stealing deprives the owner of the use of a thing, sharing does not. Copying a digital song makes more, the owner still has the same control over their copy) and has been criticized by the geek and educated community.
To see, however, that a Wired writer has also been so badly brainwashed that he could imply that trading PHYSICAL PROPERTY is even remotely questionable makes me wonder just how “in touch” Wired actually is. Since the staff of Wired obviously don’t understand the political barriers faced by technology today, I will not be renewing my subscription, and urging others not to, unless Wired manages to change my opinion before it expires.
-Kevin Dean
In the article, Wired’s Cliff Kuang wrote “The arrangement exploits a loophole in copyright law: While distributing duplicates is verboten, it’s perfectly legal to trade your own property.”
The fact that the world has become so confused and brainwashed by copyright made me rather angry, so I decided to write a letter to the Editor of wired. My letter is below:
I am a subscriber to Wired magazine (or more specifically, my wife is). While reading over the issue this month, I saw a line in specific that brought me nearly to a rage.
Specifically, in Cliff Kuang’s article about Lala the line “The arrangement exploits a loophole in copyright law: While distributing duplicates is verboten, it’s perfectly legal to trade your own property.”
The world has been brainwashed by the concepts of “Intellectual Property” far too long, and this line has proven the point exactly. “Intellectual Property” is a fallacy, it specifically refers to three separate things, patent law, copyright law and trademark law. For years the RIAA and other copyright trolls have been trying to equate “sharing” with “stealing” (stealing deprives the owner of the use of a thing, sharing does not. Copying a digital song makes more, the owner still has the same control over their copy) and has been criticized by the geek and educated community.
To see, however, that a Wired writer has also been so badly brainwashed that he could imply that trading PHYSICAL PROPERTY is even remotely questionable makes me wonder just how “in touch” Wired actually is. Since the staff of Wired obviously don’t understand the political barriers faced by technology today, I will not be renewing my subscription, and urging others not to, unless Wired manages to change my opinion before it expires.
-Kevin Dean
#2 Re: Wired Magazine “Doesn’t Get It”
Kevin Dean, <E-Mail> / 8 January, 12:47pm
It has NOTHING to do with copyright law, which is exactly why this affected me so much. Copyright is in place to encourage the creation of artistic works by temporarily limiting who may use that work commercially. It was never about “maximizing profit” for artists but about encouraging the spread of culture.
Culture is under attack already because we can’t share songs with friends anymore (in the days of cassettes, everyone copied songs and traded them) but to imply that trading PHYSICAL property is a loophole in copyright, and not a basic principal of property ownership, is disgusting.
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#3 Re: Wired Magazine “Doesn’t Get It”
libervisco, <> / 8 January, 12:47pm
This is indeed crossing the last line. Good letter there.
I guess according to some “intellectual property” now reaches beyond “intellectual” into the realm of physical that is anyhow related to it.. This warrants correcting an article and apologizing for an error.
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#4 Re: Above Comments
Kevin Dean, <E-Mail> / 8 January, 12:49pm
The following comments were migrated from my old blog. Below are the original post dates:
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I posted my reply October 31st, 2007 at 10:24 am
Libervisco posted October 31st, 2007 at 11:49 am
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#1 Re: Wired Magazine “Doesn’t Get It”
Well done.
Also, what does copyright law has to do with trading physical property? There’s no copying involved in that.