Pirates as pioneers - the connection between the right to copy and economic structure Bashny.Net

During the maritime discoveries pirates were often pioneers - something open, something to conquer, and often crowned heads were with them in the great friendship and strongly supported them. (Of course, if they did not touch her. These pirates were called corsairs).
Of course, seeing this headline on Geektimes, everyone realized that it is not a militant navigators and distributors of illegal content.
Why I decided to talk about pirates? It seems they are, sos, byaki one word. Let me start from afar.

Let's you and I will spend a little thought experiment: imagine that invented the teleporter. Yes, even with free shipping and price is very cheap cost of installation. How will it affect our lives? Our quality of life will improve or get worse? From my point of view, it would be quite improved our quality of life. For example, you would like to live in a very quiet and small posёlochke with good nature and work in a big city like Moscow or New York. Morning got up, listened to the bird trills at dawn, then dived into the teleport, and you're in the office. And about the logistics have generally keep quiet - the ability to move immediately and free loads in any direction ... So, imagine one your friend is the inventor of the Teleport: You came to visit him, and he showed you his job by moving you into the New NY. Here you walk on the Brooklyn Bridge, and think how it will be good when it goes to the masses, and your friend is suddenly the inventor and said - "You know, I've decided to split and burn the installation drawings." "But why?" You will be amazed. "Well, you know, the bus driver will have to be retrained, conductors and operators too. And banks will suffer losses as a decline in demand for mortgages. " Would you agree with his arguments? Most likely not. The economic growth that will give such an invention would not only retrain drivers and drivers, but even just simply have to pay if a retraining suddenly went wrong. Here we finish a thought experiment and go further.

Do we have a breakthrough in any field in reality? The answer is - yes! We have such a breakthrough in the field of information. The fact that in the first half of the last century makes it difficult for a long time and a lot of money - can now be done quickly, easily and free of charge. Namely - up different information content, be it music, movies, books, software, databases or samples (in the sense of information for reproducing copies) of some objects and devices can be copied without any technical problems. But instead of welcoming the new opportunities, the company somehow angry, and was in every way prohibit. For example, earlier, to the musician to release an album or writer to publish a book, require complex, long and humiliating procedure belief of some people that all this is necessary and will be in demand. And now seemingly beauty - recorded an album, threw in torrents and ready. Technologically it looks very good - the publication of the album will take place in a few mouse movements, without any financial costs (no need to buy records, tapes, record them, etc.). But musicians somehow these opportunities are not encouraging, they howl like a wolf from them. The same applies to other types of activities in the area of ​​the samples. Why would it? This discrepancy: there were technical capabilities, and people are forced to artificially restrict, prohibit, do not let go, to call for police assistance. Everything is very simple: the current economic structure of our civilization does not correspond to the current technological development. This has already happened more than once. Alternated with communal system, slave, feudal, bourgeois. Now it's time to change the next economic structure.

A new formation mechanisms of the free copy will not destroy the economy, but on the contrary, it will serve as a basis. The society will be some mechanism of remuneration of authors of the samples, which will work with the free copy. How will this happen at the moment - we can only guess. And it (the change of formation) will inevitably occur. The question is, will this soft reform or, as often happens in such cases happen next, full-scale war, the result of which will be a change and formation. To some extent the changes already under way, some free software, but they are not sufficient.

In conclusion, I want to write about the purpose of the article: in different media purposefully formed the opinion that illegal content is an absolute evil, and we must treat it accordingly. But it is not - the distributors of illegal content only pioneers of a new economic system, not the demons of hell. And, of course, the authors should be rewarded for their work, but in the fact that modern society is practically provide a means of compensation for freely copied information, obviously, is a problem of society as a whole rather than its individual members.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/242777/