Consumer Bill of Rights

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

Digital Consumer

This site gives an interesting standpoint on rising copyright "abuse" problems, coming from the consumers. This site has a lot or references, but these all seem to be done to pick out certain aspects in biased articles.

This site does, however, hold a unique "bill or Rights", making it different than most of lobbying organizations by stating what it is they want to keep. This Bill or Rights, in fact, is one of the basic foundations for the Mozilla Project, known for FireFox and ThunderBird.
So, any input?

[Tangent128 offline]

Sounds reasonable enough. I wonder if the RIAA has any comment...

[Vodka's Vengeance offline]

That's not bad. The RIAA probably don't look on it kindly though.

[Phoenix Wolf offline]

Very interesting

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

I support the bill of rights they have, but nothing else.

but I wonder how that will affect digital artists, such as on DeviantArt?

Besides, there are artists who still want people to enjoy their creations, this site is based off the same idea.

[Phoenix Wolf offline]

I support the bill of rights they have, but nothing else.

but I wonder how that will affect digital artists, such as on DeviantArt?

Besides, there are artists who still want people to enjoy their creations, this site is based off the same idea.

It might not, remember the first amendment is the freedom of speech, expression, and assemble...

If they decide to do something that would limit artwork that would limit freedom of expression wouldn't it?

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

No. Freedom of expression will limit what you can express, or what you can put in your expressions. This, however, deals with how your work is distributed and used. It's people who drew a line in the and to keep from arguing, but are arguing over which grains of sand are on which side.

[Tangent128 offline]

This Bill Of Rights shouldn't affect DeviantArtists. The main focus is, the consumer has legally been given a copy of whatever, and they should be able to personally use it however they like. It's unfair to artists for somebody to copy their work and mass distribute it without paying, but it's also unfair to the consumer to make them buy the same thing multiple times- why shouldn't one be allowed to rip a song off a CD as a ringtone? Or copy DVDs to your computer to make the ultimate SpongeBob playlist?

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

Ahh, that makes sense, then...

And I can see why OpenSource supports it, too.

[Reesane offline]

I could go into my little rant about how I had to spend six hours scrubbing a DRM program that got onto my computer (always check the CDs before you stick them in your computer), but I won't.

I would gladly support a clearly defined bill of rights for digital consumers if it where written into law. One which allows people to enjoy and manipulate the data on there computers, MP3 players, and whatever else they might have while protecting the artist and creators from piracy.

'Course, that'll never happen. I can dream, though....