Free Content in Internet

It is our human right to share what we want ,( our positive works, our arts etc.)with who we want withought to ask if some industry ,or good organised lobys ,are acording us this permision!
If they have some intersest only with materiall winn ,it can not be the right way to determinate all majority to accept some stupid rules,just because 10 000 people(like in film industry) are wasting their money with that or these business.
Sorry,I am not using the kindest words ,but I am directly like i feel in this moment!

Love
Mirela(the woman in lift)

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Free content is the natural progression of things back to our origins. Naturally it will be met with resistance, but we will get there. I don’t know how “they” can stop it. People will give. It is their nature.

If this movement from the entertainment industry succeeds, will it soon be illegal not to take without asking but to give without selling?

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Desconozco el mercado de estos productos, dudo que se arruinen, los artistas y producciones llenarán sus bolsillos de dinero, no?

Seguramente el único sentido de culpabilidad que me surge, es la perdida de los Blockbuster, cuando aún esperaba el fin de semana, para ir alquilar algunas películas.

Incluso con la llegada de nuevas leyes en Internet, dudo mucho que volviera a consumir como antes.
Con o sin perdida de dinero, gozo cada minuto en Internet pudiendo consumir y conocer películas, canciones, libros o información que desconocía antes de la llegada de Internet.

No aprecio pasar por las películas del TOP manta, no veo normal la idea de vender películas piratas. (si tuviera la necesidad lo haria tambien lo se ).
Entiendo que quieran poner leyes nuevas, pero espero que al menos no sean muy severos y aún dejen un margen de facilidad para poder ver y encontrar cualquier archivo, por ejemplo como en Megavideo.

Me alegro cuando buscando puedo ver Lawrence Of Arabian, que quizás debería ya ser un Feeware Movie, o Abandon Movie, clasificando que no todas las películas deberían tener las mismas leyes.

En cuanto a la música … no que como es el drama en las finanzas, me gustaría saber cuanto dinero suponen la fama y las giras, para saber si la caída de ventas de Cd’s es tan enorme, pero seria una pena que no fuera compartida por todo el mundo, hoy con un clic ya sois conocidos en el mundo entero por el youtube.

Voto: Sí, por el contenido gratuito en Internet.
Voto: No, por el TOP Manta
Voto: Sí, por el uso restricciones en películas de estreno. (aunque espero que no lo hagan XD)

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I think that all people must have the possibility ti get access to culture and information…so maybe one day this world will be a better place

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This “sharing” here is a matter of money, not of human rights.

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i am sure a person that is not rich would say yes,share.still,is up to the person that owns the propierty rights.

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In essence, what we are doing is destroying the fundamental basis of what is a human being; its roots.We are telling the migrants, “come”
, you’ll do the menial jobs, in return you’ll forget about your language, your culture, your beliefs, etc.
This has happened over and over, we go and colonise other countries, take over and impose our laws.The French did it in all the African countries, part of the Pacific region, the British did it in Australia, the native people have been decimated in America, Australia, part of South America,the blacks in America, etc have suffered the biggest injustices and we keep congratulating ourselves at how wonderful we all are- short of doing these people a favor -
“Somewhere, somehow, something is drastically wrong.”

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They will never be able to stop it. There will always be people putting up their PCs as servers, people mailing each other their material… They could aswell try to forbid people to meet and talk. Even in China there are courageous persons who dare to write on internet what they think.

Why not instead develop a system on national level with an annual fee or tax for every PC-owner which can go to a subsidiary system to composers, authors, artists, poets, creators? Because one can count how many people have visited a page and one can see how many times a song have been downloaded so this can not be very difficult to do!

Not only would it be an easy way to give new authors an economical support and inspire them in their efforts, but this system would also create new works and isn’t that something we very much need in these days of crisis and unemployment?

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The more we share and inspire others ,the more others share and inspire us .It is up to each and every individual I guess ,to have something just sitting there and not sharing it with friends or expressing yourself is to me a real waste of art in all forms ,The more energy you out out there ,the more you get back …I think that if they past this new law then it would stop of alot of the creative juices flowing for all artists who get there inspiration from beauty ,words,love and art ,freedom comes from being able to express ourselves ,physically,emotionally ,mentally and of course spiritually .Blessings Tania

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Dark thoughts from Germany.

Information- any information is power.
Big brother is watching, wanting to control.
…another freedom, liberty to be cut, to be circumsized?

Greetings of love and light to all sharing thoughts for mankind.
We are one.

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To my mind it will never be possible to stop sharing from Internet absolutly as it’s too broad for people to control it.

For example many people just reprint some passages from their favourite books to give their friends a chance to appreciate it and say some words about it to express their opinion. The same is with films: people make clips which contain scenes from them as they like creativity and it’s interesting for them to make such short clips or even just to show other people their favourite moments from them.

I think that some limits should exist but not such firm. I think that there is no crime in loading books, films, music from Web for your private usage but producing disks of smth. like this with these matherials is a crime.

So people should have the right to share for free if they just want to have smth. for themselves.

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Hola Paulo,

You couldn’t have said it more beautifully. Sharing is very important principle. It has formed part many cultures for such a long time, and it has helped so many in so many ways…
I believe that we are free to do as we are pleased. If we own something we are free to do our will of it. So we should always be free to decide if we want to share our content or not.

This is our right.

According to the internet information I have found some documentaries in which they explain how “they” want to put barriers on the internet and close down access to many information.
They say it has already started. I truly hope this will not happen otherwise knowledge will be lost by many.
If you want you can check it out! It is called “save the internet” .

saludos!
Amor y paz
Bianca

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Don’t you stop Paulo! Surely you know the value and merits of your blog, just to this DON’T YOU STOP, people needs to share, to understand and I… and you….too…
:)

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As you said here Paulo about love: “as much as we share, we mutiply it”. It is because of this you got where you are.

I would say that, more poor people are getting able to enlarge their culture through the internet, as once ago it was impossible. So, the readers in the world are growing up, faster and faster, and we should understand that new opportunities to match them are showing up as well, for exemple, sharing free content.

In the other hand, we forget how incredible the culture stands intact with them and that the costumers(in any part of the world) have the strongest power of deciding what they wanna buy and advertising what they like.

So, this crise is comming to reformule the economy of this century.

;D

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Dear Paulo Coelho,

Ofcourse the internet must be free. It’s all about sharing. That’s how it is. That’s what it is. And always will be. You can’t control blizards. We should maximise all opportunities it offers us. Keep communicating and connecting.
So I agree with you totally. It’s a difficult matter, but on the other hand so easy. (Just use the machine, as it uses you.)

This is my first comment on your blog. My name is Bert Kommerij and I work for the Dutch Broadcastcompany. I develop my projects on internet, using weblogs, flickr and twitter. So i’m familiar with the copyryghtsystem isues. I’m a writer and director of radiodrama and I publish my projects on internet. Using all the input I get. To get rid of the copyrightpeople I decided to publish under an creative commons license. To put some logic in the matter. This works well.

Internet is car and you can drive with it as fast as you want, with open windows and the music as loud as possible.
So who tells me to drive slow, in silence, breathing dust.

Kind regards from Amsterdam.
Bert Kommerij.

PS: Working on http://www.mediame.nl at this moment. My last project Flick Radio is on several platforms, but in best quality is on archive.org. It’s about a man who gets lost on flickr. It would be great if you’d have a look at it. It’s all english, or subtitled. The movie was produced as a radiodrama first. Afterwards we edited the pictures on it. If you decide to have a look, take the Quicktime version on:
http://www.archive.org/details/Flick_Radio )
My worklog, mainly in Dutch … , can be found here: http://www.flickradio.nl

(My brother lives is Curitiba!)

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Of course I’m against forbidding free content in Internet, because it’s the only place where a person can freely share his or her thoughts, emotions, opinion. On my point of view it’s the best side of Internet, it’s why I use it. If entertainment companies occupy the Internet, I think I won’t use it so much, as don’t use TV now.
Anyway it won’t happen very soon, because at the todays level of web development it is impossible. Even if it will happen in future, people will always find a way to communicate, to join their efforts and thoughts for something good.

with best regards, Illia.

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Oh, and I don’t think it’s hurting the entertainment industry’s revenues either. I think it’s helping them. I’m more likely to, say, enjoy an actor or a singer if they’re kind enough to share their truths with us. :)

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I can’t believe that “they’re” threatening to ban free content on the internet. This is news to me! And, very bad news — even merely the fact this is a possibility.

I’ve been a blogger for 3 years. That my content is free has actually enabled me to become a writer, to have an audience, to give voice to my causes.

While I realize the dangers of free content (the LEAST of which is its effect on the entertainment business!), the benefits and rewards FAR outweigh the negatives. And, I don’t think this is something that can be controlled unless Orwell’s vision was right, and Big Brother watches our every move.

This is very troubling.

I also thank you for giving so much of yourself for “free.” We HAVE to do this — if we can. To set a model of transparency. That is, to be as transparent to each other as possible. That’s my goal with my blog and writing. It’s to say HERE I AM. And DARE TO BE YOURSELF. More people should do it. So, there better not ever be a ban on this very beautiful thing. This “beauty,” indeed.

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Dear Paulo

I think it’s great that you can share your thoughts here with your readers. It’s such a unique form of contact with a writer. I guess this way you can understand the readers better and have a feeling that you are writing for real people not just the numbers in publisher’s statistics…
I think it would be a great loss if they put some kind of restrictions and didn’t allow people to share their thoughts and knowledge for free.
I hope it won’t happen! :)

Regards
Kate

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I think it is no one right to forbid individuals to share free content.

Knowledge is for everyone..and should remain so..

it is the pleasure of future so what is the point of banning???

knowledge is for knowledge ..it isn’t a previliage to ask a pay for it

With regard,

Rema

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCmP4bEJfOg&feature=related
Enjoy Astor Piazzolla as long as it is …free!
Love,
Thelma

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Paulo,

Thanks for this great question. I think it’s a very important one.

Perhaps this is a generalization, but I think that there is a gap between people who understand the internet revolution and who have begun to tap into the potential of it, and those who have not. There are still a great number of people in the world who haven’t really begun to comprehend the dramatic shift in human consciousness that has occurred because of the internet.

Even five years ago, the world was a different place. Back then, there used to exist this concept of “falling out of touch” with people. People would form social groups through life, work and school, and then, as time passed and those circumstances changed, the connections between people could become severed. For example, it was easily possible to lose the contact information for a childhood friend, and never again communicate with that person for your entire life. These days, with Facebook and Myspace, if you so wish, you can re-discover almost anyone from your past who isn’t intentionally hiding from the world. I myself have re-connected briefly with just about every friend I could have imagined talking to from about age 2. Increasingly, as more people join these sites en masse, it becomes easier and easier to find anyone you’d care to look for.

There also used to exist this concept of people having heated discussions over trivia and facts and then going for years without discovering who was actually right. These days, you can answer most basic factual debates with a simple trip to wikipiedia.

I use these examples of social networking and online encyclopedias to illustrate how fundamental basics of human interaction are changing due to the internet.

I think many of the government officials and lobbyists responsible for pushing legislation to create stronger copyright laws that prohibit internet sharing are largely unaware of the shift that is really happening to the collective human consciousness. I think such individuals must not fully comprehend that the internet–and humanity as a whole–is growing at a rate that can no longer be effectively controlled by laws for any great length of time.

Every year, technology (and software) evolves exponentially. Any law to stop file sharing on the internet cannot succeed for very long, because it will quickly become impossible to enforce; the software will always evolve faster than any laws can be enacted to compensate for the new and unpredictable possibilities that the new technologies will create. For example, even though legal action was taken to close the music sharing site Napster, file sharing is even bigger than ever with BitTorrent and other sharing methods.

As proof of the unpredictable possibilities of the internet, all we need to do is take ourselves back ten years–almost no one could have predicted that social networking would have swept the world so completely, connecting everyone so easily and in so much detail. Or the way we could answer any factual question so easily.

Similarly, if we go forward, we can barely imagine the consequences of some predictable possible technology shifts. For example, Intel recently unveiled a prototype device which allows people to transfer electricity over a distance without wires. Who can predict what changes that will bring on the world? I myself can imagine a time when it becomes possible to store computer information in the air instead of on hard drives. Where might that take us, when recorded information no longer occupies any space at all?

In many ways, it does not matter what legislation passes to try to stop internet sharing. Ultimately, it will fail, given a little time. As soon as it became possible to transfer art into a digital format, the difficulties in selling it began. In the 1970s, you could sell a music record because the record was a physical object and there was no other way to get the music. But as soon as it became possible for an identical, virtual copy of that music to be made–of equal quality–those who created the music no longer had anything tangible to sell. Instead, they were only selling on the basis that the consumer believed he should pay for it. As soon as you release one digital copy into the world, it is the same as releasing a million, or a billion because anyone can find a way to replicate it, given enough time.

Books are a little different for two reasons. One is that few people want to read a book on a computer screen–it’s not the same peaceful experience, especially when so much of our lives is already spent looking at that screen. Reading is a break from all that for most people. The second reason is that it is still expensive (ink costs) and time consuming for people to print out a digital copy of a book–it’s much easier and often nearly as cheap to just go buy the book that the publisher has already printed for you. If printing evolves to become faster and cheaper, this may change rapidly. If someone invents a home technology that can quickly print out a novel sized book, complete with binding and a cover then its possible book sales might drop, too.

Still, as I said earlier, I think its inevitable that the objects of our creativity will be shared more and more freely, no matter what laws are enacted. I imagine that the future is unpredictable beyond our wildest dreams. I think that this internet revolution is really just the outer manifestation of the inner-evolution of the Soul Of The World. At any rate, it is an astounding time in which to live and breathe. I personally believe that there will be other unpredictable human social evolutions that will occur in tandem which will balance this out, allowing artists to thrive and flourish in new and different ways; the Soul Of The World needs artist’s too.

By the way, you and your work have been a great inspiration to me and I am honored to be able to respond to you so directly in this way. It is truly a miracle I would never have conceived of when I first picked up “The Alchemist” in 1996.

Thank you for being out here, so available to your readers.

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Basically anything we do,we evaluate and put a price on it.When you give something free,you intend that as a gift i.e. because you feel the people deserve it.
It is very essential to put a price on things,as not all are capable of evaluating the worth of free content.
So i do feel it is necessary to put things into the right hands.We can of course say that on the internet too it can land up into the right hands,but then as humans we all are still influenced by each other,thus there is a higher probability that the book will reach the hands it has to,if you put a price on it :)

Of course not everyone can afford to put things up for free. :) But yes all poems are there on my blog for free :P which anyway a very select few read and understand…

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I definitely think the future people one is one of free content.

Take music. I think everyone wants to be able to get their music for free. But, this does not have to be bad news for the artists. They can make their money through added value offerings. The shows, memorabilia, etc.

So, my thoughts are that with a little bit of creative thinking, free doesn’t have to be bad for those making money in the entertainment industry.

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I think it is overwhelmingly to exchange , and therefore to freely exchange on the internet it is our freedom of communication , of a communication vast and multiple

But it is true that some internet users use the net for purposes not always as healthy as yours , Paulo It must therefore be vigilant on what is available on the net , that everyone can see , read … (Because all do not know have good judgment on things )

It will thus be the share of things …

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