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Michael Moore is a fraud

Posted on November 4, 2010 by maxkeiser| 68 Comments

Michael Moore: “The last thing I want to say is, we have something on our side of the fence that they don’t have on the other side, and that’s the popular culture.”

No, ‘we’ don’t have popular culture because ‘they’ engage in copyright abuse

MK: Simply put, if Moore were sincere in his criticism of Big Business he would take on the copyright cartel and the soul-rotting, economy busting travesty of ‘perpetual copyright’ and support groups like eff.org. He doesn’t, because he’s conflicted. He takes that copyright cartel money and never questions it. (Plus, his film “Capitalism: A Love Story” never talked about capital, the Fed, and the role of debt-based money – but I suspect this is more a function of financial illiteracy than hypocrisy).

Addendum: As I have argued many times, copyright abuse is the biggest threat we face. Locking up our ideas on corporate balance sheets and cutting us off from our intellectual and creative birth right is tantamount to performing a species wide lobotomy. If we can’t compose thoughts without violating copyright – and this is increasingly becoming the case with ever more State controlled, sophisticated technological means of reading our emails, texts, etc. – we can never express why and how we seek reform. Michael Moore, for all his bluster fails, because he has shied away from taking on this lynchpin issue.

Britain is Appeasing the Copyright Cartel Again

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Max Blog: Time to whack Hollywood’s Pinata of Copyright Riches?

Posted on August 23, 2009 by maxkeiser| 3 Comments

To add to the theme of deflation and the new frugality that is changing the way America shops and thinks I want to mention my new site beta.piratemyfilm.com; a creative way to finance media properties that lives outside the studios and their cosy banking relationships

One of the last monopolies in America – one that appears somewhat resistant to the deflationary pressures of the general economy is Hollywood.

Pirate Myfilm has the ability to disintermediate much of what adds costs to the films that make their way to theaters as such bloated behemoths. The talent agencies; WMA, CAA and ICM control the pricing of the talent and this in turn exerts control over production and distribution. But as the Internet creates ‘stars’ outside of the Hollywood system we see the emergence of a new entertainment industry. The only thing missing is a correspondingly creative way to finance media properties that also lives outside the studios and their extremely cosy banking relationships.

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[1040] The Truth About Markets – New Zealand – 17 June 2009

Posted on June 16, 2009 by stacyherbert| 25 Comments

Stacy Summary: Our Truth About Markets for RDU 98.5 New Zealand.

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[Vid] Max Keiser on the Pirate Bay decision – recut

Posted on April 22, 2009 by stacyherbert| 4 Comments

For those who wanted just the Max bits:

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Tagged copyright, max keiser, the pirate bay

Max Keiser in “Extra-Ordinary” – Imprisoned good ideas & Bob Dylan

Posted on April 14, 2009 by stacyherbert| 17 Comments

Max was interviewed a few months back by Confusionism for a series called “Extra-Ordinary,” a series described as such:

Extra-Ordinary is a project in which I ask people two main questions.

What concerns you in the world today?
Who is the smartest person you know?

Extra-Ordinary is a network experiment. I interview a person, then ask them who the smartest person they know is?. I then interview that person and ask them the same question, so on and so forth ad infinitum until we work it all out and I have interviewed a whole host of really interesting, creative, intelligent switch on people.

Topics: Copyright locking up good ideas on corporate balance sheets; Bob Dylan; and the smartest person Max knows is . . . the only person he knows!

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The Max Keiser PirateMyFilm Pre-Beta Blog: Copyright ‘term extension’ cancer

Posted on April 13, 2009 by maxkeiser| 9 Comments

I pulled the following comments from recent posts:

Max: On the one hand you’re talking about “de-commercialization of art” and on the other you’re saying there are “revenue streams” for PMF.
So which is it?
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

And:

Max, Nature is the ultimate creative force, who does it pay? It pays itself, it feeds back into itself, creating more diversity through better design. Nature, as culture, is selfishly unselfish, it is a system of favours, a system of mutual appreciation and ultimately a matrix of a trillion trillion trillion moments of piracy.

These two comments sum up the interesting interplay between the economy and the ecology. The economy should mirror the ecology more than not. Even Adam Smith hints at this in his famous works written during the time economic liberalism’s creation during the period of the Enlightenment. What most people equate with a ‘fast growing economy’ is nothing of the sort. Any economy or any component of an economy that is growing faster than the host economy or host political system or country has to be considered more cancerous than organic.

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Max Keiser Blog #4 Pre-Beta – The self-expression in price discovery

Posted on April 11, 2009 by maxkeiser| 9 Comments

Micah M. White has a new blog up on AdBusters; “Support Online Piracy”

He says:

“There is no swifter way to bring about the de-commercialization of art than to undercut the profit motive. Likewise, there is no better way to promote a blackspot culture than to actively copy and distribute the cultural productions that speak to us and the future we’d like to build. If we pirate everything, how will the artists get paid? That is precisely the point: piracy opens up the possibility of imagining new ways of being and new ways of supporting the potential of art to change the world.”

To the extent that I am correctly (or incorrectly) interpreting White’s comments, I agree that de-commercialization is necessary as a means to reinvigorate our public spaces and our public discourse. I see the current media and commerce market as a zero sum game where every dollar, inch, and minute gobbled up by private interests means a commensurate loss of the public’s interest. I agree that the artists will create art regardless of any profit motive. The overwhelming majority of art and culture that has been created by humans has been done so for little or no money. I agree that by draining the entire economic system as it currently exists will exert downward economic pressure on everyone, including artists. They are, however, able to keep producing premium, insightful, highly valued artifacts no matter what’s going on in the economy.

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Max Keiser Blog: Hollywood Luddites & Subsidized Corn

Posted on April 10, 2009 by maxkeiser| 19 Comments

As the US dollar continues to be challenged as the world’s reserve currency many sacred US institutions are also being knocked from their perch. Hollywood and America’s huge intellectual property export market, one of America’s biggest exports after military hardware and state subsidized (read: communist) corn, will sink just like the US dollar.

In reference to PirateMyFilm, my new micro-payment indie film finance site, the effect of this site on Hollywood will be interesting. Anyone who’s been involved in the movie business in Los Angeles knows, the business adheres to a strict hierarchical model with the three main talent agencies at the top controlling the ‘A’ list stars whose bankability or ‘star power’ is monopolized to drive prices higher.

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Max Blog: PirateMyFilm, Day 3 pre-Beta

Posted on April 8, 2009 by stacyherbert| 21 Comments

Somebody wrote to me and said they love the PirateMyFilm idea but were surprised I was not doing something that addressed environmental issues instead of the issue of the government’s copyright abuse. In fact, my biggest progressive issue has always been reform of copyright law. Without access to the ideas, art and culture currently locked up on corporate balance sheets thanks to the draconian DMCA laws put in place by President Clinton, progress is restricted.

Before we can figure out how to solve the environmental degradation issues we need to be free to innovate. We need to be reconnected to our own intellectual heritage and be able to freely make use of our collective genius as humans without penalty from insidious copyright kleptocrats. We need to empower and enrich individuals ahead of the narrow minded oligarchy of the current copyright cartel choking both our creative community and our ability to innovate.

To me, this is the most important progressive issue of our time.

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