Recently I posted about Stallman and Copyright, and how his beautiful ideas about how artists could make a living. Not every one think the same way, though…
Terry McBride, a somewhat famous music manager is also spreading the world about the end of copyright, as reported by El Reg, but with a bit of a twisted view on how actually bands could get some money out when labels won’t exist anymore.
The idea is quite old and obvious, football teams and websites do it for years, and is simply ad-driven free content. It’s not exactly free as in freedom as Stallman would love, I’m sure, but it’s a closer reality and I’m afraid we’ll have to go through that to reach real freedom.
Google is probably already developing AdSense for young female singers to display “Ads by Google” on their forehead while playing in a concert, and Microsoft is already filling the patent on how to force Vista buyers click on their “Ads by Yahoo! (I mean, Microsoft)” links on bands’ websites with “free” download that can only be played on leap years.
All in all, GNU is doing well and Stallman should be proud of it. The French revolution was an intermediate stage to “free the people” which was kinda necessary, pity they never reached true freedom. We might need this intermediate state again now, I just hope we don’t do the same mistakes this time (whatever they were)…
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