On Tue 24/01/12 12:29 , David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

Ban all copyrighted material from the Internet that is not under a free licence.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104205134740204626607/posts/Riy9n4Fv2SW

Anyone want to get behind this one? :-D

Not me. Besides what's been said already, I wonder what you mean by "there is nothing to pirate". "Piracy" is quite a silly term but I usually assume people mean illegal copying of copyrigthed works. If you only allow freely licensed works in the internet it means there are still copyright licenses and they can be infringed. People can "pirate" free works and they do (and sometimes they even get condemned for it if they don't amend it). I once wrote a private mail (in Catalan) to give examples, so I can dig it if you want to, but it should be obvious here.

So spreading the idea that free copyright licenses can't be infringed no matter what you do is quite against any freedom goal. The infringement of free licenses often is freedom-destructive.

You might simply advocate for the abolishment of copyright, which would likely be more consistent although not by itself wise (but not necessarily worse than some other options, like some that are increasingly being tried).