Dear Pancharatna Prabhu,
This is our last email, explaining our understanding of the situation.
We have covered and explained the issue several times over by now.
- Regarding BBT(i) contacting archive.org, we have emails from the BBT
to other devotees showing that BBT contacted archive.org in relation
to us, while we were still in conversations, and other similar black
and white examples exist at your disposal.
- We offer our services to all devotee websites what to speak of the
BBT. It seems that BBT itself is not asking for help. Your good self
has already used some of our services like nectarshare.com,
pariprashnena.com, wiki.pariprashnena and worldsankirtan google group.
How is that for cooperation?
> The BBT is not trying to stop anyone from putting their own Krishna
> conscious content anywhere, but only trying to protect Srila Prabhupada’s
> property by exercising some basic controls.
So, if you are not trying to stop iskconmedia, what are we talking about here?
Your conditions are not “basic” but clearly elitist and crippling the
internet preaching.
We already asked BBT to give special arrangement as we do not fit any
of the possible offender categories, but remember: BBT has cut short
our conversations until we decrease the 20.000 photos to 20 low res
pics.
> All of these are great. But when there are two sites competing in the same
> market exclusive content is also very important.
You are talking about two physical shops in the same street, not about
the internet. You are talking about the Industrial age not the
Information Age.
Napster was closed and Bittorrent and a dozen similar clones were
created, so trying to stop digital sharing is a waste of time and not
very intelligent.
Many music bands, famed writers, etc. have realized by now that more
their digital content is freely
spread, more profit they make with their hardcopy sales and all the
other ways of monetizing.
We better adjust to the new paradigm or succumb to it.
CONCLUSION
All our problems are solved attributing a Creative Commons license to
the BBT digital material and having proper hard copy sale outlets.
CC regulates problems of piracy (copy and distribution for profit) and
manipulation of material by mayavadis, etc as CC license does not allow such
actions –>> http://creativecommons.org
your servants at Iskcontech
