Today, information is ownable. This entails a complex/costly system of statutory regulations that attempt to prohibit the transmission of information and limit our powers of free speech in order to protect the financial interests of "content owners".
There is a fundamentally different way, hereafter referred to as Kopimism, that is at odds with today's complex and self-defeating system of intellectual property. Kopimism is simpler, more efficient, and arguably better for everybody in the long run.
Kopimism is so good because it is in harmony with (and better exploits) the natural laws of reality. Information -- a dual of matter -- is intangible, inexhaustible, and illuminating. As matter wants to fall, information wants to be free. Kopimism takes advantage of these sacred (God given) properties of reality for the benefit of humanity.
We have an opportunity to introduce Kopimism to the mainstream by propagating this normative way and understanding of Kopimism that arrises from our understanding of reality. Our mission is to unite the factions and transition the world towards a society of complete information freedom through the transformation of our own way of being.
News
* Meeting Every Sunday at 1pm at Sudo Room * Brainstorm and meet to discuss, Dec 16th 2012 * Let's create a static website on kopimism.org * Let's design cards to hand out to gain members
General Info
- IRC: ##kopimism (not #kopimism)
- URL: http://kopimism.org (not up yet)
- Meeting: At SudoRoom, Sunday afternoons at 1:00pm
Kopimist Credo
- I do not copyright my work nor patent my inventions, but publish them in the public domain unless I wish to keep them private
- I encourage others to copy/modify/publish/implement my work
- I give credit where it is due to the best of my ability
- I demand the right to copy/modify/publish/implement any information presented to me for anyone who wants it
- I respect the privacy of others
Discussion Points
- Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks
- DRM encoding/decoding
- Ethics, or what is not allowed
- California Pirate Party
- Radio wave regulations
Links
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Kopimism/ (we might want to lead the discussion on Reddit)
- http://craphound.com/content/download/
- http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20121209/07431921317/psy-makes-81-million-ignoring-copyright-infringements-gangnam-style.shtml (interesting reading)
- http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html