I & K Social Net

It’s amazing how many people believe this and how many law suits are running in the world prosecuting people who are copying bits. I often ask myself if this kind of Lawsuits are going to finish one day?

Theres a speech given by Cory Doctorow at the Lift Talks (see the video)

that introduces some interesting new ideas to this topic. Beside stating his beliefs he refers to what means being Internet Business ready. He also is ready to state in public that “…I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

The key issue to me is that these prosecutions are fighting open science and free knowledge and art exchange.

Musicians don’t want lawsuits (see Canadian Musicians hate Canadian DMCA) they make more business if the can get people to their performances and concerts. Just have a look at the blogs in MySpace offering free music.

This is probably a debate that will continue for long, but I hope that reason will prevail.

I was invited by a friend to join Supercool School on Facebook and he sent a pamphlet about the goals and the reasons of this project. The document explains in a logical and teleological way what they understand for free learning.

In it there’s a message that I mostly liked: “Creativity always builds on the past” which is also a message form a video promotion for creative Commons in YouTube. The idea and the video both say something we have always known. We can not escape from the past, and project our future from it.

When the anti-copy fighters are forcing governments all over the world to prosecute peer-to-peer like criminal actions, it seems to me that some people believe to be so powerful that they don’t owe nothing to the past and everyone owes them everything for their geniality. And that’s false.

Supercool School is based on creative commons and free knowledge exchange but also on letting everyone to grow and evolve with selfesteem at the pace they like.

You can visit their site Supercool School

Here’s the video on Creativity always builds on the past: