Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Legal The Power Game
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:14 PM
The law always functions first for capital. The two can not be separated:
STOCKHOLM — More than 40 percent of Swedes engage in illegal file sharing, but recording industry officials have noted a sharp drop since a government crackdown earlier this year, they said Monday.We can see from this why hiphop is no longer revolutionary. Its moment of greatness was precisely when it (like file sharing today) was outside of the law—meaning, when it was outside of the social system (governmentality) we call capitalism. Paul's Boutique, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 3 Feet High And Rising —these works were made in a condition of lawlessness. This is why they challenged, dismantled the "state of the situation.""Six out of 10 (users of file sharing sites) have stopped completely, or at least significantly lowered their use of illegal file sharing after the new legislation," Ludvig Werner, chairman of IFPI Sweden, told AFP.
A new Swedish law in effect since April 1 gives copyright holders the right to force Internet service providers to reveal details of users sharing files, opening the way for legal action that could see downloaders pay damages and fines.
We must be faithful to the original moment of hiphop, the moment when it encouraged "thievery in the form of sampling":
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