I was treated in a very unprofessional manner.
I was a client and should have been treated with the same respect as the more professional clients but I wasn't for whatever reason.
The lack of professional communication is most disturbing regardless of what our personal relationship on the net may be.
You host. I pay. That makes me a client and should be treated as a client when matters of TOS or billing or whatever is pressing upon us.
It should not be displayed on my public blog.
That is why we have email.
I will not be treated that way regardless of what your opinions of a cussing, disabled, single mother may be.
I have a voice.
I will use it.
I don't go on long rants about things much. I generally stick to fluff and stories about my home and family and tv shows. I don't get all righteous and in your face much.
Today, I am.
I have taken a stand on an issue of copyright.
I urge my hearing readers to hear this: Laurence Lessig's Must-hear Speech.
For my hearing impaired readers, here is the general idea of the speech which I wish you could hear because the passion is amazing.
"Laurence Lessig has given over one hundred speeches like this one. On June 24, 2002, he announced this one would be one of his last....
That's the opening paragraph of the Flash Movie, which introduces the speech about to be played.
It's a very long speech, which reveals the true reason there is copyright. The agenda of the RIAA, Disney, and all those who desire copyright is explained in a 4 step process which he calls "The Refrain," because he repeats it over and over after he gives examples.
The Refrain:
1. Creativity and Innovation always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
3. Free society enables the future by limiting the power of the past.
BUT!
4. Ours is less and less a free society.
In 1928, Walt Disney derived the cartoon Steamboat Willie from the Buster Keaton movie Steamboat Bill. Buster Keaton and the makers of the movie did not sue. Disney was free to COPY it. BURN it. REMIX it.
And Disney did with many public domain fairy tales like Pinocchio and beyond. In 2004, this would be impossible.
But as time went by, Mickey Mouse was ripe and ready to enter the public domain so some lucky innovator can take Mickey and redraw him, remake him, and retell his adventures....
And Disney said FUCK that! The MOUSE IS OURS FOREVER!
And they lobbied and kicked and screamed until the copyright length got longer and longer and longer until it became Life + 70 years, SO THAT NOBODY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO WITH MICKEY WHAT THEY DID WITH STEAMBOAT BILL AND THE BROTHERS GRIM.
Why? Go back up and read the Refrain....."
Printed from http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/10479
What you think of copyright law is flawed.
You are going on what they have told you and not what the truth of the matter is.
Your rights are at stake.
I will not be silenced.
I will not be told by you that I am breaking a law when you yourself do not even understand the basis for those laws and how they themselves have been changed to remove the artistic abilities of everyone.
In a free society, we are free to take the art and use it, build upon it, share it, give it as a gift, sleep on it, shit on it, break it and flush it down the toilet, run over it, play frisbee with it, zap it in the microwave, but they are changing that.
On the internet, almost every single thing has been copyrighted.
Everytime you make a new design for your site and use any piece of art found anywhere on the web or maybe you scanned it from a book, without their express permission or a notice of creative commons, you are violating someones copyright.
It does not matter if you link back to the artists website.
Everytime you post a picture or excerpts of a news article that you grabbed from the headlines at a major news or local news site, is a violation of copyright even if you link to the article.
You are not the photographer and you don't have his permission to use it unless you have the express permissions of the news channel or the creative commons license by them.
And just as an example, CNN.com, at the bottom, is a terms of use link. If you click it and read section 5, you will see that you cannot take any part of the site and reproduce it in anyway. Go read it.
I do not appreciate being publicly flogged on my domain regardless of where/who is hosting it.
If you host me, be professional and take it to email warning me of my infraction and I will read your TOS and then act accordingly to my own heart and mind and free will and if that means getting shut down, I will deal with it but at least I will be truthful to myself and you.
I stand firm in my decision to post a music file the other day.
It is a personal website.
The items I use are for my personal use.
I am not running a commercial website.
If at any point I make enough money from being an affiliate that causes me to have to pay taxes on those earnings, I then become a commercial website.
I guess this is where the grey areas of the P2P/RIAA laws affect us.
When and how does my personal webspace become a commercial website where it is illegal to post copyrighted works?
And once this happens, just who is it that decides I am commercial and the items are not for my own personal use?
For more information on just one issue which forced me to move my domain, please visit the following:
http://eldred.cc/
http://creativecommons.org/ *NOTE* A lot of you have this posted somewhere on your blogs or sites. Do you even know what it means?
And it's really funny how some people on the net display their Creative Commons license giving people the right to use their stuff and make statements about copyright.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/
http://eff.org/
http://lessig.org/
This isn't about popularity or how many people have me linked or not linked, it is just my space for talking about my stuff.
If you want to blogroll the new url is up to you.
This is where I am and have no intention of moving again for a long time.
Sorry for the inconvenience of it.
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