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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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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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