Thread:Comments:Wikipedia, Reddit in 'blackout' against SOPA, PROTECT IP laws/Thoughts on SOPA and PIPA ?/reply (3)

I agree that the SOPA and PIPAis a waste of tax payers money, and is a good way of limiting intellectual growth of the population through selective distribution of information. As in, if you can afford to buy that information then you gain the intellectual upper hand. It is a way of keeping the rich, rich and the poor, poor.

The problem is, the way music production, and movie production is currently managed, means that if there is no anti Piracy Laws, then people will refuse to invest money into producing block busters movies, if they aren't going to get their money back. No block buster movies being produced means, nothing for us to pirate.

So here is my solution. Instead of getting countries to sign up to Anti Piracy Laws, we instead get countries to sign up to funding the production of movies and music, make it an extra tax of 1% of your income or something. We set up a global organisation, we can call "UAF" United Arts Fund or something, and every year, keen musicians/production companies submit their song or music video or album to the "UAF" and every year, citizens of the world get to vote on the songs, music videos and albums they wish to get produced. As part of the submission process, the production companies also submit a business case outlining costs for producing the song, album or music video, and so what the citizens of the world et to vote on, is if the "UAF" had $2 billion to spend (from country governemtn contributions), global citizens through collaboration, get to decide on which songs, music videos they want produced, and whether they are keen to pay the full amount the production company is putting forward, or if they wish to negotiate other amounts, buy submitting counter proposals for costs. If the musiciain or production company is happy with the proposal, and the citizens have agreed this is a song they want produced, the production company is then obliged to produce the song/album/music video and as it has been paid for by the global citizens, it is then that song/album/music video can be downloaded and shared as many times as people want, because we as global citizens own the right to that song/music video/album.

The same can apply to movies and books. What this solution enables is global collaboration on the production of information (in this case movies), enabling people to still be able to afford to produce movies (And we only get movies we actually want).

So as to ensure that regional content can still be produced, and that the minority aren;t overrules by the majority on everything, as in so the 1.5 billions chinese don't decide on all the movies produced (because they have the larger vote), a certain amount of the UAF will also go the the production of regional movies, so all music isn't american, and all movies indian or chinese. This aspect would still have to be thought through a little more. but it could still mean that actors get high paid salaries if their costs are added to the business case, and we agre to fund that movie.

That way we get to decide what information we want made available and we get to use it as much as we want. It would mean no more copyright laws and therefor no need to spend money on policing it, and because in general a lot of us currently go to the movies and spend NZD$15 per movie, having that money go to a global fund, as part of a tax, isn't going to impact me too much. And the thing is, any country that chooses not to sign up to this concept it isn't going to make much difference, because they would generally be the countries that currently don't follow copy right laws anyway.

You could actually apply this concept to anything really, if an inventor comes up with an idea, posts the propotype online, and out of an IF (Innovation Fund) we can decide which products we want to put into production and whether we are prepared for that product to be as valuable as it is, then all we should have to pay when we actually buy the product, is the manufacturing costs and the distribution of the product, because the actual value of the product ($1 million lets say for a new type of lightbulb) would have been covered by the Fund, leaving us to only have to pay for the manufacturing of the product and distribution, which is the standard operating costs.

Anyway that is my thought, to make us a more globally colalborative society, helping to spread the diistribution of wealth, and enabling us to decide how that wealth is distributed.