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Maj Krek

Kill the Internet-and Other Anti-SOPA Myths | The Nation - 0 views

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internet myths SOPA nation

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  • in the wake of protests by dozens of websites and large numbers of their users, as well as a virtually unanimous chorus of criticism from leading progressive voices and outlets, including Michael Moore, Cenk Uygur, Keith Olbermann, Alternet, Daily Kos, MoveOn and many people associated with Occupy Wall Street. Judging by the fervor of the anti-SOPA/PIPA protests, a casual observer might think the advocates of the anti-piracy bills were in the same moral league as the torturers at Abu Ghraib.
  • But before we celebrate this “populist” victory, it’s worth remembering that the defeat of SOPA and PIPA was also a victory for the enormously powerful tech industry, which almost always beats the far smaller creative businesses in legislative disputes. (Google alone generated more than $37 billion in 2011, more than double the revenue of all record companies, major and indie combined.)
  • One example of anti-SOPA rhetorical over-reach was a tendency by some to invent sinister motives for the sponsors. On his usually brilliant show The Young Turks, Uygur said that SOPA’s sponsors were “pushing for a monopoly for the MPAA and to kill their competition on the Internet.” This is untrue. They wanted to kill those entities that steal their movies and make money off them, either directly or indirectly. There really is a difference
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  • that stopped allowing children to put up their own drawings of characters like Mickey Mouse because of fear of copyright lawsuits. Examples such as this, or of a theoretical risk of parents being charged for the right to have kids sing “Happy Birthday”, are demagogic. The underlying issue is scale. There is a profound moral difference between loaning a friend a book and posting, without permission, the content of bestsellers for commercial gain—and people and legislators ought to take that distinction into account.
  • since iTunes and Amazon and are surviving, Napster’s original model was legally killed and Kim Dotcom was apprehended, no new laws are needed. The status quo may be what we end up with, but that doesn’t make it inevitable or right. Human beings have created the piracy problem and although, like any kind of crime, society can’t eliminate it entirely, we can decide whether or not to seriously try.  
  • What is good for Google and Facebook is not always going to be what’s best for the 99 percent. (And of course Microsoft and Apple et al. are extremely aggressive when it comes to protecting their intellectual property rights).
  • on the content of some of the Kool-Aid that has recently been served and help swing the pendulum back, if only a little, in a direction in which intellectual property can be nourished. Otherwise, we will be complicit in accelerating the trend of the last decade, in which those who write code get richly rewarded, while those who write the music, poetry, drama and journalism that are being encoded have to get day jobs.
  • To be sure, the legislators who crafted the ill-fated bills and the film industry lobbyists who supported them have little to be proud of.
  • In a widely viewed anti-SOPA/PIPA speech on Ted.com, Internet philosopher Clay Shirky similarly attributed dark motives to the studios. The targets are not Google and Yahoo
  • If he means a friend sharing Marianne Faithfull’s version of “Visions of Johanna” with me on Facebook, then the accusation is absurd.
  • ek in his 25,000-square-foot compound surrounded by a fleet of Merced
sergeja perklič

Informacijska hladna vojna - 0 views

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konferenca telekomunikacija informacijski imperializem internet

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  • ZDA so trdile, da hočejo internet obraniti pred birokratskim nadzorom OZN, cenzuro in nedemokratičnimi režimi. Nasprotniki so zahtevali več možnosti soodločanja pri upravljanju interneta, opozarjali na ameriško internetno prevlado in se sklicevali na načela nacionalne suverenosti.
  • Za varuhe internetne svobode so se poleg ZDA razglasile še EU, Velika Britanija, Kanada, Indija in nekatere južnoameriške glasovalke, na nasprotni strani so ostale Rusija, Kitajska ter številne arabske in afriške države.
  • Najpomembnejša lastnost interneta je njegova mrežna zasnova, ki nima središčne točke in ne upošteva delitve sveta na nacionalne države.
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  • Ameriške delegacije niso sestavljali samo predstavniki zunanjega ministrstva, ki zastopajo uradne zaveze ZDA, da si bodo povsod po svetu prizadevale za »odprt in svoboden« internet, brez katerega si težko predstavljamo sodobne demokratične družbe. Pridružili so se jim tudi predstavniki internetnih podjetij (Googla, Facebooka …), ki so življenjsko odvisni od sedanjega odprtega interneta in po različnih ocenah v ameriško gospodarstvo letno prispevajo tudi do dvesto milijard dolarjev.
  • Letošnji poskusi netransparentnega sprejemanja protipiratske zakonodaje (Acta, Sopa, Pipa) in vse močnejši posegi v državljanske pravice niso omejeni samo na nedemokratične države »tretjega sveta«, ampak so vse pogostejši tudi na zahodu (nadzor uporabnikov, profiliranje, blokada povezav in konkurenčnih storitev …).
Miha Naprudnik

Controlling the web - Fault Lines - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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controlling web

shared by Miha Naprudnik on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major record labels. 
  • The US government says it must be able to fight against piracy and cyber attacks. And that means imposing more restrictions online. But proposed legislation could seriously curb freedom of speech and privacy, threatening the internet as we know it.
  • Can and should the internet be controlled? Who gets that power? How far will the US government go to gain power over the web? And will this mean the end of a free and global internet?
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