Future of the Web

[Last month marked the second anniversary since the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing the four largest music labels, stopped filing copyright lawsuits against people suspected of illegal file sharing. The RIAA said ISPs would ride in to save the day on illegal file sharing but they've yet to show up. RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol in a file photo. (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET ) At the time, the RIAA said it would seek help in copyright enforcement efforts from Internet service providers, the Web's gatekeepers, which are uniquely positioned to act as copyright cops. ... ]

[ La reciente publicación del informe "Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008" (PRO IP) debería sin duda generar problemas de conciencia a los senadores que se disponen a votar para volver a incluir la llamada "Ley Biden-Sinde" dentro de la Ley de Economía Sostenible: según el informe deja meridianamente claro, estamos ante un claro caso de "haz lo que digo, no lo que hago" por parte de los Estados Unido.s. ...]

* Invito a todas las Personas interesadas en incluir en sus fuentes de Información, datos y opiniones contrastadas científicamente, apoyadas en una Extensa Bibliografía, y sin ninguna intencionalidad política, a leer -de forma Gratuita y Abierta- la siguiente Tesis Doctoral, cuyo royecto fue premiado por La Fundación Autor, en 2003 y obtuvo en Lectura Pública, en 2005, la Calificación de Sobresaliente cum Laude, teniendo en cuenta que la problemática de La Circulación de La Cultura en Internet continúa invariable. ...

[ La sentencia llega tras una denuncia del distribuidor de juegos Atari... ]

[ La Quadrature du Net joins the blackout operation launched by Hungarian civil rights activists who oppose the newly enacted media law. Everybody is invited to join the blackout and contact their representatives to oppose any kind of censorship in the European Union. This law imposes a stringent regulation of printed, audiovisual and online media which severely undermines the democratic foundations of the Hungarian republic. Today, La Quadrature also sent a letter to the European Commission and the President of the EU Parliament to ask them to take concrete steps to protect freedom of expression in Hungary1. ...]

The number of Twitter users who provide personal information in their bios has more than doubled since last year; 82% of Twitter users now provide a name, compared with only 33% in 2009. And 73% provide location information, compared to 44% in 2009. Forty five percent give a website address, up from 22% a year ago. This seems to indicate that Twitter users are becoming more comfortable disclosing personal information on the site, but more importantly perhaps, that having a profile on Twitter is becoming increasingly important.

*This is The Modern Change of Media and Marketing Paradigms, something that other Businesses (The Audiovisual and The Music Ones, for example) refuse to understand... [ 2010 will mark the first time marketers put more money into online advertising than newspapers, eMarketer estimates. Total newspaper spending, including advertising in print and online editions, will fall to $25.7 billion in 2010, a decline of 6.6%. Spending on print newspapers alone will fall more steeply to $22.8 billion. Meanwhile, a rise of 13.9% will push US online ad spending up to $25.8 billion by year's end. ... ]

Plus: http://twitter.com/search?q=Assange%20Arrested

[ Op'Ed by Jérémie Zimmermann initially published in French in Mediapart WikiLeaks has become the symbol of disturbing information that can't be stopped. Recent declarations and actions against the organization clearly expose the will of governments to control the Internet. From now on, it seems that both sides are fighting a battle that could be one of the most important that we must wage for the future of our democracies. On one side, those who would like to put the Internet under control, through administrative or privatized censorship, in order to remain in power. On the other, citizens of the word at large ready build networked societies in which the sharing of knowledge, freedom of expression and the increased transparency allowed for by the Internet must be protected and strengthened at all costs. ]

[ El anuncio de un programa especial sobre la mujer condenada a muerte llevó a pensar que había salido de la cárcel. - La cadena aclara que se trata de una grabación en la que colaboró para reconstruir la muerte de su marido ... ]

Speaks by Itself... :(

[.... "Gang of Crookes" Newton is the publisher of p2pnet, a site which has for years chronicled the online file-sharing world. Back in 2006, Newton wrote a piece about local Vancouver businessman Wayne Crookes, the owner of West Coast Title Search Ltd. Crookes had just sued a man named Mike Pilling for writing allegedly defamatory articles about Crookes and publishing them on the Internet (Crookes had previously fired Pilling from Canada's Green Party, in which Crookes volunteers). Pilling's articles relied on the obvious pun here, using titles like "Friends of Crookes" and "Gang of Crookes." In covering the free speech aspects of the case, Newton linked to the articles in question. Crookes demanded Newton remove those links, saying that Newton himself could be liable for defamation. Newton refused; Crookes sued. ....]

[...For internet users, any effects are not likely to be felt until IPv6-only services start appearing. If ISPs haven't upgraded their networks by then, those parts of the internet will be inaccessible to their customers.]