passage from free culture that our video is based on

We were born, in this sense, a pirate nation.

Piracy comes in many forms. The most significant is commercial piracy, the unauthorized taking of other peoples content within a commercial context. Despite many justifications that are offered in its defense, this taking is wrong. No one should condone it, and the law should stop it.

But as well as copy-shop piracy, there is another kind of taking that is more directly related to the Internet. Before we paint this taking “piracy,” however, we should understand its nature a bit more. For the harm of this taking is significantly more ambiguous than outright copying, and the law should account for that ambiguity, as it has done so often in the past.

All across the world, but especially in Asia and Eastern Europe, there are businesses that do nothing but take others copyrighted content, copy it, and sell it—all without the permission of a copyright owner. This piracy is wrong.

Many kinds of piracy are useful and productive, to produce either new content or new ways of doing business. For (1) like the original Hollywood, p2p sharing escapes an overly controlling industry; and (2) like the original recording industry, it simply exploits a new way to distribute content; but (3) unlike cable TV, no one is selling the content that is shared on p2p services.

It might therefore seem hypocritical for us to insist so strongly that other developing nations treat as wrong what we, for the first hundred years of our existence treated as right.




These are some pieces pulled from Chapter Five: "Piracy" Pages 62-66

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All video clips were pulled from youtube.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/judge-rejects-m/