The creator of the film rip! The
remixers manifesto, is heavily biased. However we should not hold
this against him as his arguments ring true for the most part. He
argues that copyright laws are unjust and holding people back, and
again I would agree despite his heavy bias against copyright holders.
He is probably biased due to the fact that as he grew up he always
listened to remixed music and now when he is older his favourite
artist is a man going by the name Girl Talk. His bias may also be
based around the environment of music sharing and piracy he would
have been raised in, that is certainly the reason I share his bias.
In Rip! The author uses appeal to
authority by Calling upon notable figures such as Cory Doctrow to
support his point. Cory Doctrow is a prominent blogger and advocate
of freedom of information. He is known to have a seasons pass to
Disneyland. He also tells anecdotes about cases of people being
screwed by copyright laws, stories of regular people who get sued for
possession of pirated music or software. Tales of people just like
you or me who were sued into oblivion by corporations for no more
than a couple songs they took off the internet.
However biased he is the film maker
shows the whole situation in a reasonable light he tells of the
creation of copyright which in its original form was actually quite
reasonable, but he does focus far too heavily on the anti copyright
side. Truly I agree with him and shall say he is correct you have to
build on the old to achieve the new but copyrights are holding the
world back.
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