Thanks to lots of theft on the Internet being possible, we could copy/paste the whole interview found here, or just link to it. What you’ll find is a Rick who is very proud of Rick. I’m mostly amused by the part where he cites himself as a source. I have no doubt that Rich Falkvinge could beat me into the ground in his sleep, but reading his Rick-enriched answers in the interview make me wonder if he talks to anyone. Lawmakers may not fully understand what they’re trying so hard to regulate in response to pressures from the record industry, but they know what Circular Reasoning is.
Don’t misunderstand, Rick writes a lot and his groundwork is fine. It’s just that Rick shouldn’t be the only support Rick has. He concludes with a discussion about the move to Facism where Government is swayed by corporate interests to the detriment of civil liberties. True that, but he has to consider how lonely his fight might be. The United States is THEE number one country in the World historically and now for creating new lines of communication and profiting from them. Faxes, Telephones, radio, television, citizen’s band radio and the World Wide Web. Have you seen how much it still costs to send a fax? All, arguably, under Fascist rule – or whatever it is where the industry is so impenitrable.
We think Rick is barking up the wrong tree. Bitching at the goverment won’t do it even if Geeks in Sweden have stronger pulls on Swedish government parties, it all comes down to the States in the end. We’ve got nine of your thirteen super servers, we’ve got all your record industry giants and the Hollywood mess – it’s run from here. Sorry, Rick. Leave the government alone; either teach them to head off the RIAA competition or hit on the RIAA itself and come up with the solution that they haven’t thought of yet! Opening with Ghandi was a nice way to tug at our heart strings, but you need to close this thing out and squash it like Yoda™.
