Make Your Own Darn Music Already

Slashdot posted a link to a column by Infoworld’s Nicholas Petreley, Information doesn’t want to be free — people want it to be, basically arguing if people want free information they need to go out and produce it themselves rather than stealing it from big record companies or pirating software, etc.

If you want the system to change, then change it the way Linux has changed the complexion of software. Change it by recording new music with musicians who buy in to your new way of distributing music and then give their music away.

That is a sentiment I definitely agree with, but to be fair Petreley should have also noted that a lot of companies that rely on intellectual property are trying to twist copyright and patent laws to try to make it more difficult for small content producers to compete.

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