Lessig's Challenge Lessig's Challenge is my new
website to track these donations.
My purpose is not only to fight Big Content, but to foster a gift economy
where people really can make money for their hard work. The majors want to
lock us up into their "trusted", DRM system. We need to fight against them
technically, with better P2P tools; we need to fight against them in the
market, by refusing to buy DRM products; we need to fight against them in
the legislature, by lobbying our representatives; and finally, we need to
co-opt the majors' niche by creating an alternative gift economy without
the middleman.
You can help. Donate money to your favorite open source project or
website. Give money to the EFF or ACLU (or both!). Buy a t-shirt from an
online comic strip or musician. Will you take
Lessig's Challenge?
At the 2002 Open Source Convention, Lawrence Lessig
issued a challenge to the audience: spend more money fighting the RIAA
and MPAA than you do helping them by buying their products. I've
accepted that challenge. For the last four months, I've been making
donations to orgainizations which fight for freedom and open source
programmers and purchasing things from online artists who could use the
cash.
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