On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:12:43 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote:

"EricP" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:30:16 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

I Googled for something and at the bottom of the page was:


In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium
Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish,
you
may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at
ChillingEffects.org.


I've never seen it before, what does it mean? Mary


It's usually seen when someone has Warez or copyright stuff available
on the site.

What's Warez?

And isn't almost everything copyright?

Yes, but the internet means that if anything is digital it sooner or later
becomes worth less than the paper it will never be printed on as far as
royalties or a revenue stream is concerned.

Eventually, people who make creative works will do one of three things.
1) Do it for fun/personal/moral reasons.
2) Be commissioned and paid to make/write something.
3) Be paid to perform something.

Quite a few kinds of artist already are used to this setup (painters,
sculptors, actors, dancers, performing musicians, 'bards', TV)

The ones who will have to change are recording musicians, film makers,
composers, script writers and maybe book writers. The latter may well
survive because there is no book reading technology that is 'as nice as a
paper book' - yet.

However between the end state and the current state one almighty
electronic and legal cultural war will be waged, which has already begun.
The outcome is inevitable but the losing side have enormous resources at
their disposal so the fight will be pretty impressive.


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