Award Winning Manga to be Freely Used, Author Will Not Request Royalties

[petrus4]

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/08/22/award-winning-manga-to-be-freely-used-by-anyone-for-anything-anytime-author-will-not-request-royalties/

This is a huge victory for that which is wrongfully called software piracy, and is a major milestone in the progress towards actualisation of the Abundance Paradigm.  We can hope that many other media producers will eventually follow the examples of pioneers such as this man; as the completely free and unrestricted circulation of information, is something that is a necessity, if we wish to achieve an open source based, and truly transparent and accountable society.

Today this, and tomorrow the Pleiadian Equal Value System, and Amaterasu's Witness device, as well as her robotically aided logistics system, based on open source code.  We are moving closer.

[Amaterasu]

Indeed.  There's a book out entitled "Free" and it discusses the expectation of free stuff...  Most often it is in conjunction with a sales pitch or a sale...but free is gaining ground in its own right.

(Apologies for taking so long to respond.  STILL catching up!  LOL!)

[undo11]

free sounds fantastic, and sometimes we could all use free, but the current call for free is to keep the common man from realizing any personal success by virtue of his labor and product., so that only a handful of people at the top have abundance and everyone else has to beg for handouts .    sorry to say it but the abundance paradigm will not work.

[Amaterasu]

You keep saying that, Beth, but so far I haven't seen WHY You think it won't.

[undo11]

You keep saying that, Beth, but so far I haven't seen WHY You think it won't.

well i was out looking for software to build the mmorpg.  there's lots of free software out there to make games with, for example, hero engine has a very advanced mmorpg game engine platform and an entire business package and server package attached.  they make money when the game does.

however,  as i mentioned in my ebooks, there's a glass ceiling that i have yet to scale, due to any number of reasons, starting with other christians refusing to let me thru (i apparently haven't "paid my dues" yet, even though jesus said there is nothing i could literally offer that would prove i was any more or less worthy than the next guy), other non christians refuse to let me thru, and etc.   since both sides don't seem to think i'm worthy of being allowed to succeed at any endeavors, i can only surmise that free won't mean jack squat to people who want to succeed unless they also have "paid their dues" and those dues could be a literally endless list that you will never be able to achieve.  in effect, the deck is stacked already.  so the abundance paradigm will not work.

[petrus4]

free sounds fantastic, and sometimes we could all use free, but the current call for free is to keep the common man from realizing any personal success by virtue of his labor and product., so that only a handful of people at the top have abundance and everyone else has to beg for handouts .    sorry to say it but the abundance paradigm will not work.

It's very simple, Beth.

As far as at least software is concerned, everyone simply makes what they have freely available.  That is, if you've produced or downloaded something, you make it available, and everyone else makes available what they have likewise.  In such a scenario, then, you wouldn't have someone like Prince or Metallica complaining about people pirating their music; because they would know that, while their own material was freely available, they could also take whatever they wanted for their own use or expression from the network themselves as well.

I have been trading software for many years; most of my life, in fact, so this is a topic and a concept which is very dear to my own heart.

For physical resources such as food etc, admittedly it does become a little more complex than in the case of pure information; but we're already at a point where it could be done for at least staple items, if the will was there.  Yes, we have things like rare earth metals and such which are not replicable yet, and so for them I could see a provisional economy still being necessary; but we already know how to both turn mercury into gold via a nuclear reactor, as well as how to synthesise diamonds.  So I'm confident that in time, the knowledge would come as to how we could make literally any material completely renewable.

http://www.highvibrations.org/archive5/equalval.htm

If there is one thing I would really encourage you to do, it is to start to be willing to look at this idea.  The one great stranglehold which the corporations have right now, is that they have created a scenario where people are not willing to even look at something like the EVS, because it is assumed to be either impractical or immoral.

What we are proposing is not immoral, and this can be demonstrated by observing that everyone can benefit from it.  I've downloaded books via torrents before, and then sent the authors money afterwards; I also did it just the other night with a new game I've got.  When I go back to Nimbin, I will probably give a copy of said game to someone I know who is very poor economically, and would likely not be able to afford it.  Nimbin is a place where these types of values are held much more naturally and spontaneously by the people there.

So I'm not someone who just wants to be a parasite; and this also isn't just some theoretical abstraction for me.  I've lived it; I do so on a near daily basis, as much as I can.

The Missionary Church of Kopimism.
http://questioncopyright.org/
http://www.isohunt.com/ - A search engine for bit torrent.

however,  as i mentioned in my ebooks, there's a glass ceiling that i have yet to scale, due to any number of reasons, starting with other christians refusing to let me thru (i apparently haven't "paid my dues" yet, even though jesus said there is nothing i could literally offer that would prove i was any more or less worthy than the next guy), other non christians refuse to let me thru, and etc.

If Christians won't support you, you need to find someone who will.

I am not advocating that you should cease to love Jesus Christ at all, Beth; but Jesus is not the church.  The church is made up of human beings; often small-minded, petty, vindictive, mean-spirited human beings, who are that way because they are deeply unhappy.

I used to go to church myself, and at times it was beneficial, but a lot of the time it also wasn't.  If it is serving you, then keep it; but if it is not, and if you can, try and be willing to let the church go.

[undo11]

doh, i don't think you're a parasite nor do i think the abundance paradigm is parasitical.  one of the deals in the paradigm is that you get to do whatever is you want to do and so does everyone else. ain't no way in hades that people who already have all the advantages will share the spotlight with people who aren't on their list of who can pass go and collect 200 dollars.  even if the dollars weren't there, there would still be competition.  and a pecking order.   and prejudice.  and unpaid dues that never seem to be satisfied. 

[Amaterasu]

well i was out looking for software to build the mmorpg.  there's lots of free software out there to make games with, for example, hero engine has a very advanced mmorpg game engine platform and an entire business package and server package attached.  they make money when the game does.

however,  as i mentioned in my ebooks, there's a glass ceiling that i have yet to scale, due to any number of reasons, starting with other christians refusing to let me thru (i apparently haven't "paid my dues" yet, even though jesus said there is nothing i could literally offer that would prove i was any more or less worthy than the next guy), other non christians refuse to let me thru, and etc.   since both sides don't seem to think i'm worthy of being allowed to succeed at any endeavors, i can only surmise that free won't mean jack squat to people who want to succeed unless they also have "paid their dues" and those dues could be a literally endless list that you will never be able to achieve.  in effect, the deck is stacked already.  so the abundance paradigm will not work.

What is it that They're not letting You accomplish...?  Give Me a specific here.

[Amaterasu]

doh, i don't think you're a parasite nor do i think the abundance paradigm is parasitical.  one of the deals in the paradigm is that you get to do whatever is you want to do and so does everyone else. ain't no way in hades that people who already have all the advantages will share the spotlight with people who aren't on their list of who can pass go and collect 200 dollars.  even if the dollars weren't there, there would still be competition.  and a pecking order.   and prejudice.  and unpaid dues that never seem to be satisfied.

You will only earn "spotlight" if People like what You produce.  Presently, the "spotlight" is on those who can pay for it.  If You could create a game and have it produced and distributed...People will play it and comment on the web as to Their experience and if lots of People like Your game - "spotlight" for You.

If Your game sucks...no spotlight.  Simple.  No One will have the power to control the spotlight - except by creating something better.

[zorgon]

The one great stranglehold which the corporations have right now, is that they have created a scenario where people are not willing to even look at something like the EVS, because it is assumed to be either impractical or immoral.

One of the main stumbling blocks as I see it is those that are promoting this concept do not have an INTERIM solution.

Over 40% of Americans today are living from paycheck to paycheck just to keep alive and a roof over there head. Without an interim solution they don't have the luxury of considering this concept

There is no way a change like this can happen overnight. The infrastructure alone will take decades to put in place...

How do these people eat and live in the meantime?

I hear talk of the 'tipping point' a lot with no clear explanation of what exactly that means. Is it the thought process that once enough people are 'aware' of the possibility, it will magically manifest out of thin air?

This change will take time... and a LOT of people will need to provide the infrastructure for free...

How do those people live and eat in the meantime?

[petrus4]

doh, i don't think you're a parasite nor do i think the abundance paradigm is parasitical.  one of the deals in the paradigm is that you get to do whatever is you want to do and so does everyone else. ain't no way in hades that people who already have all the advantages will share the spotlight with people who aren't on their list of who can pass go and collect 200 dollars.  even if the dollars weren't there, there would still be competition.  and a pecking order.   and prejudice.  and unpaid dues that never seem to be satisfied.

One of the things that Sasha talks about with the EVS, is that they way we make it work, is by trying not to worry about whether or not everyone else is going to accept it, but simply finding a group of people, on an individual basis ourselves who will.  Sure; the David Rockefellers and other rich psychopaths of the world will still be there.  The Lizard Hearted are probably going to hang around for a while yet.

However, if we can find a group of people of like mind, with whom we can be immediately mutually supporting, then the existence of the cabal honestly ceases to matter.  They are doing what they want to do, and we are doing the same.

I know I'm already pushing too hard here, though; and I'm sorry.  I have to be willing to honour other people's choices when they don't coincide with mine.  I also have to remember to refrain from feeling like a victim when someone else disagrees with me; or feeling that I have to convert literally everyone else on the planet to my way of thinking, in order to get what I want or need.  I do not need to do that.

All I will say, in closing, is that I know that TAP/EVS are only impossible, because many people currently do not want them to be.  It is wanting them to be possible, that is the primary obstacle.  The cabal know that, and that is why they have tried to create a scenario where individuals do not want to free themselves.

[Amaterasu]

z, add free energy.  Use the govt to spend money retrofitting and building the infrastructure.  As the cost of energy dissipates, things become cheaper and cheaper.  No One has to do anything differently on a daily basis in Their lives.  Keep doing what We have been doing.  As jobs are removed by robots (and only those that the Person doing them doesn't WANT to do them will be filled in this way), use the govt to support Them - "welfare," if You will, and eventually there will be no cost for anything.

100% of the cost of EVERYTHING is energy.  The gold nugget deep in the mountain has no value until the miner expends meaningful energy to get it.  And though We may see the value as being the gold nugget...what GAVE it any value was the meaningful energy someOne expended.  the amount of value may be arbitrarily assigned, but it was the energy that allowed a value at all to be assigned.

[petrus4]

One of the main stumbling blocks as I see it is those that are promoting this concept do not have an INTERIM solution.

There are interim solutions, Zorgon.  We're already seeing community gardens developing all over America and other countries; I've read about possible vertical farm initiatives, as well.  These are scenarios in which people can contribute to the process of growing food for everyone in a given community, including themselves, and can thus be employed in that process.





Another part of the problem, (a big part) is the American government beginning to use its' police to literally defend itself and corporate interests, as far as such things as USDA armed raids on organic dairy farms and such are concerned.  The government are fighting tooth and nail, and are going to continue to fight; because they know that when we succeed, it's going to mean the end of them as an institution.



What they don't understand, however, is that we don't want to see them as the enemy.  We'd much prefer it if they'd give up fighting and come and join us; because what they don't understand is that they are actually fighting against their own best interests.  We want a society that is better for every single human being; and that includes, ironically, the people who are currently willing to kill us in order to maintain their own falsely perceived power.

[undo11]

If Christians won't support you, you need to find someone who will.

I am not advocating that you should cease to love Jesus Christ at all, Beth; but Jesus is not the church.  The church is made up of human beings; often small-minded, petty, vindictive, mean-spirited human beings, who are that way because they are deeply unhappy.

I used to go to church myself, and at times it was beneficial, but a lot of the time it also wasn't.  If it is serving you, then keep it; but if it is not, and if you can, try and be willing to let the church go.

you seemed to have missed the part where i said non-christians do the same thing, particularly after they find out i'm a christian.   lol

i seem to recall you posting in another thread here that christians are this that and the other thing.  now just to give you some idea how that translates into problems for me, is that those thoughts are in your subconscious mind so when you and i have interactions, every time i do something even remotely irritating, i mean it could be something extremely minute, it will seem bigger than normal to you because you already don't appreciate my world view, even if my world view is not typical and perhaps less offensive to you (?).  the fact i resemble something in anyway, that you are already predisposed to despising, is going to interfer with your ability to just treat me like a person and a friend.   i know, i've seen it happen over and over again. 

i don't go to a church btw.

[zorgon]

No One has to do anything differently on a daily basis in Their lives.  Keep doing what We have been doing.  As jobs are removed by robots (and only those that the Person doing them doesn't WANT to do them will be filled in this way), use the govt to support Them - "welfare," if You will, and eventually there will be no cost for anything.

If no one has to do anything differently then nothing will change. This very thread is asking authors to do just that CHANGE what they are doing and give their work away for free.

Jobs are already being replaced by robots and those effected are NOT having a choice.

Welfare? Yeah I see how that works just around the corner... all the illegals getting free medical care and all those Cadilacs and HumVees collecting their welfare checks and food stamps, while an HONEST person cannot collect assistance as was meant to be

Free energy won't happen until some inventor actually gets a working device into production. If free energy is your ticket to Nirvana, it will be a very long wait

China probably has the best chance at getting close to that... I would move but then they are prejudiced against "Whitey"