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Copyright Criminals Photos

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copyright criminalThe current copyright climate makes us all copyright criminals. From trading music between friends, making backup copies of DVDs, an iPod party, a youtube mashup - its all copyright infringment, and it's all against the law.

So - are you a copyright criminal? We'll edit together these photo mug shots into the movie.

Download and print the photo plate below, take a picture with it, then upload it back here using the image submit form.

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The image is going up on my

On September 13th, 2008 Anonymous says:

The image is going up on my blog too, on Monday at www.abandonedstuff.com

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Portuguese version/Versão em português

On September 13th, 2008 Anonymous says:

http://stoa.usp.br/tom/files/5/6153/criminosodocopyright.jpg

Translation into Brazilian Portuguese (Tradução para o português do Brasil).

See you (Até mais)!

Tom

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Just confirming on my blog

On September 13th, 2008 Anonymous says:

Just confirming on my blog I'm a copyright criminal http://stoa.usp.br/tom/weblog/31970.html

Tom

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Spanish version / Versión española

On August 9th, 2008 Anonymous says:

The translation into spanish here / Traducción al español aquí

http://www.fotolibre.org/albums/userpics/10029/normal_copyrightcriminals...

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The big one...

On August 11th, 2008 hombre_invisible says:

Hi, all:
And thanks Mr. Anonymous.
The biggest Spanish version is here.

Notice that I've eliminate the previous link because the license at Fotolibre.net is less restrictive than here.

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spanish

On August 16th, 2008 Anonymous says:

Hey that's awesome! Thanks for the translation - can you take a photo of you and / or some friends holding it?

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Version française

On July 11th, 2008 nikolai35 says:

Je suggère plutôt "Criminel de la copie" ou alors "copieur criminel" ou "copieuse criminelle" (for a girl)

But the current french sign isn't gramatically correct.

-niko

P.S. I submitted this comment earlier without logging in, maybe it's a repeat. Sorry!

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Version française

On July 11th, 2008 Anonymous says:

Je suggère plutôt "Criminel de la copie" ou alors "copieur criminel" ou "copieuse criminelle" (for a girl)

But the current french sign isn't gramatically correct.

-niko

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the allure of the outlaw

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On June 4th, 2008 detritus says:

I've said it before and i'll say it again, i think the whole "copyright criminal" thang is the wrong way to talk about copy culture.

If If someone told you you had to pay to breathe, or you were breaking a law, what would people do? they'd rise up and destroy the social order that allows that to be a rule. A similar thing happened in Bolivia in 2001 when Bechtel tried to make the residents of Cochabamba pay huge fees for water, even rainwater. They rose up, and won, even against army troops that were called in. they didn't stroll around calling themselves "water criminals" - they kicked some ass.

In Culture, in our priveleged little media world that us rich folks live in, for some reason it's very alluring and sensational, to fancy ourselves "pirates" and "thieves" and whatever else. maybe because nobody needs art and culture to survive, like they do water. but whatever the case, to call yourselves criminals, that's actually giving in to the paradigm, admitting that it IS somehow wrong to recycle culture.

But it's not. And there will always be lots of people who won't join your cause if you play around with calling yourselves thieves. There has to be another way, to more fundamentally question the paradigm from the start and get those people on board instead of turning them off right away.

No, I'm NOT a "copyright criminal," because I don't recognize the bullshit laws that would define me as such. That's what every one of these mugshots should be saying. "I'm not a criminal, I'm a free person!"

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my post was removed

On June 14th, 2008 Anonymous says:

am i experiencing censorship from opensourcecinema?

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which post?

On June 15th, 2008 brett says:

I don't believe so - what was the post? Only spam gets deleted around here....

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information the growing resource

On June 13th, 2008 Anonymous says:

Information is the only resource that grows with use. It is more then just renewable. The more we use information resources the more they grow, develop, refine, and inspire into even more valuable resources.

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Hmmm...

On June 11th, 2008 Anonymous says:

Uh, yeah. It's called satire.

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it definitely is yahoo

On September 17th, 2008 Anonymous says:

it definitely is

yahoo

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Satire? Who cares?

On June 16th, 2008 Anonymous says:

You're missing the point, you're still admitting to the "crime". The more you admit to it, the more you believe it, the more strength it has in your mind.

So are you a criminal? Satire or not ask yourself that question.

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belief

On June 16th, 2008 brett says:

I believe I'm NOT a criminal. That's why its satire. The things these would make illegal are not crimes.

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good point

On June 4th, 2008 brett says:

What we're trying to say is that its ridiculous that we've BECOME criminals. These bullshit laws have created a system where ordinary people, even those who are turned off by the moniker, are criminals. By showing the criminalization of average folks, the thinking should seem absurd.

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copyright "criminals"

On October 5th, 2008 Anonymous says:

as a 45 year old musician and lawyer I see both sides - and I will not rattle on about the inevitability of the end of laws of intellectual property. Though you people know that you are all as the Chinese. You *know* that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction,

what happens us that people as myself who were composing and performing original music have stopped. I "made it" in NY, NY, and yes, dogs and cats, The Chairman's cliché us true. Took me 12 years to go on a run where I was composer-in-residence at a musician's dream space.

During this time my music was being stolen, not credited and info not even want to think about that group in Indiana who made money they never thanked me for.

So: I quit practicing to concert levels or composing at same, as have 1000s if others because Generation Y is called the GIVE ME EVERYTHING FOR FREE GENERATION.

Sorry, but in the Theres no such thing as a Free Lunch generation, we knew that most theft had cost. What are you Really paying? You and me and everyone else knows that while there are now over 1,000,000 B+ bands, the last two A+ performer/composers of the decade are Dave Matthews and John Mayer - whonate good in their style, but indicate paradoxically the problem: face it, the new acts, well, suck. When I was party age, we had all tbrbmisic y'all are stealing. These old people are more successful than the feebleness around now. Eminem is great - Linkin Park isn't bad. Butt where is the creativity of generation Y? Inventing the udea that line China, you have an idea that after your looting spree (I do not steal music) that someone is going to restock the shelves with new, creative fresh recordings.

Could it be that 1950s acts like Amy Winehouse are venerated? Kanye West? It's a noncreative musical atmosphere. Well, no wonder you are stealing that which you cannot perform. Then again, yours is rightly a fatalistic world where you don't create because you know that WWIII is, like, gonna destroy that which you could write. We are not more creative than you/ we were just born into a Golden Age where the Cold War and Mutually Assured Destruction kept everyone happy. Now it's - Why write when Babylon is on the verge of war with Jerusalem?

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