The Crime of Sharing

John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) has written a editorial on how excess legislation will kill our freedom of expression. In the article, John talks about recent cases where the entertainment industry has “railroaded” laws through Washington thus tightening control over the internet. This means we are slowly loosing control, giving power to the media giants of the world crippling our ability to share our creative works. Whatever happened to “power to the people”? Haven’t we shown the entertainment industry what we want and how we want it. As the digital masses grow, so should our power over the distribution methods of our works. Artists should be given the opportunity to profit from p2p, not the industry. Thus driving dollars to where we want it, directly into the artists themselves. Read the article here