Nina Paley's "Copying is not theft" - arrangement by Willbe

Extended music track available for free at http://willbe.bandcamp.com/album/nina-paley-copying-is-not-theft-willbe-remix
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I've made this remix for fun and for appreciation of Nina's way of sharing art. I don't completely agree with the message, but it's true that copy definitely can't be considered as theft, but as copy. The world changes, internet comes in every home, let the economic models and the laws evolve accordingly.
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Copying is not theft
Song & Animation by Nina Paley
Music & arrangement by Willbe
www.questioncopyright.org

Category:

Music

Tags:

• animation
• comic
• song
• digital
• copy
• creative
• commons

[Coolcat607]

um.... this song is addicting o.o

[sbeast64]

Dat bassline.

[lolwut1337n355]

If I bought a game and it sucks, I lost £40. - I am Sad

If I download a game and it sucks, I just saved myself like £40. - I am Happy

If I download a game and it's good, I would buy it. - I am Happy

If you are going to sell something, make it worth buying. Don't come crying saying that piracy is making you lose money when most people wouldn't buy it anyway.

[JQuistis]

@outstandingpajamas If the copied money is literally exactly the same, then it wouldn't matter which you kept, and it wouldn't be stealing. But, if the copied money is differentiable in any way, then you'd have committed theft, unless of course it was freely given to you, in which case it's just a smart trade for you, with probably an idiot on the other end.

Does that all make sense?

[TheNeurall]

Lol this is funny

[outstandingpajamas]

AWESOME!!!

So hey, give me all of your money, I'll make copies of it, and then give you those copies and keep all your money!

I LOVE THIS!! :D

[90evilideas]

Much better than the official version in my opinion! Cute arrangement, and Nina Paley's vocals have so much more character than whoever's singing the new version. Thanks!

[rvaliant7]

@marlowe123100 This kind of scared you, huh? It's OK - the totalitarians will ensure that everyone's "property" is protected - and they will define "property" as broadly as they possibly can, except in circumstances where it is not to their benefit (eminent domain?)The USA doesn't have the largest prison system in the world for nothing! It's good to be the king, huh chief?

[paagera]

STFU

[marlowe123100]

@wc1hater In a perfect socialist society I get fluffy bunnies catering to my every need because there is no such thing as a perfect socialist society. Just because this idiot makes money from begging for it while people steal her music doesn't mean that it's a workable model. And of course, her $3000 (wow! she can totally pay three months rent on that - four months if she doesn't eat) would be so much bigger if everyone wasn't just copying her stupid DVDs at her encouragement.

[Minsyaaa]

it's kind of true :O

[wc1hater]

I see a lot of people saying that copying = lost revenue.

Okay, now, read this:

In a working perfect socialist society, since creative or intellectual goods cannot be assigned a value directly like food or tools, the people decide the value of it by "donating" or paying the author/creator in some way.

Nina Paley does this by selling DVDs, and it has actually earned her quite a bit ($3000, her seller medium keeps $27000).

She's using the aforementioned ideal art distribution model.