The solution is NOT to make the mothership government and computer under your desk the sovreign ruler over what you can and cannot do on your computer, your mind. We are thinking on a decade and century level timescale here.
I don't care if some artist or some coder somewhere doesn't get paid for some work well done. The future of our species is at stake here and we are trying to paint a bright future for your great grandchildren.
A future where your children rule over the machine, not where the machine rules over you. In my machine, I may break the law if I choose to do so. the machine under my desk shall not be made into an iron fist of the government. I will fight this to the death. we have your best interests in mind. the internet is going to become a mind, and we need to protect this baby. It is still an infant.
the government has no idea how to raise it, it only knows how to bleed it and tax it. I give this baby a voice.
The threat isn't not watching Game of Thrones. The threat is not being permitted to own and modify open general-purpose tools at all, because they happen to be able to play Game of Thrones.
Correct. And even if copyright disappeared completely, GoT would continue to be made: it costs $50M/series and I'm sure they could crowdfund it with 5 million people handing over $10 (or some other multiple).
While I agree with your ideals in general, I don't think TPB is a paragon we should uphold. TPB is not like "Robin Hood" at all. Have you seen the extremely deceptive ads on each torrent page that looks like the actual download button? The real download button is a small hyperlink, but they are clearly trying to deceive people into downloading whatever malware is linked. It's more like the rich stealing from the rich and poor in this case.
I don't care if some artist or some coder somewhere doesn't get paid for some work well done. The future of our species is at stake here and we are trying to paint a bright future for your great grandchildren.
A future where your children rule over the machine, not where the machine rules over you. In my machine, I may break the law if I choose to do so. the machine under my desk shall not be made into an iron fist of the government. I will fight this to the death. we have your best interests in mind. the internet is going to become a mind, and we need to protect this baby. It is still an infant.
the government has no idea how to raise it, it only knows how to bleed it and tax it. I give this baby a voice.