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Google's top copyright man, he wrote his blog in a purely private capacity as one of the leading copyright scholars in the world.

copyright has become less and less responsive to the balance of incentives and exceptions

Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works

the best way to know you have a mind is to change it

if you worry about what others think of you, you will be living their version of your life and not yours.

Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works

在这次的网络民意的调查中，绝大多数中国人愿意支付200元的正版费给微软，以表示对他们知识产权的尊重。这再一次显示，中国人民是一个伟大的民族。中国人愿意接受所谓现代的版权规则，参与这个知识产权的游戏。只是微软将在国内卖价甚低的软件，在中国卖出了天价（请以收入水平来衡量价格的高低，而不是所谓的国际统一价格），中国人才作出了痛苦的选择——不采购正版。

如果中国人是小偷，微软就是大盗，就是罪犯。不过他非常巧妙地利用了现行法则，也利用了中国政府对游戏规则的不熟悉与不作为。公道自在人心。中国人对微软，愿意支付合理的价格，来作为对其辛苦劳动的报答，但是绝对不会屈服于其商业垄断形成的霸权。中国政府应该在反垄断上挺起腰杆子。欧盟就曾屡次起诉微软，中国政府为什么不敢？

The Internet is not the same for everybody. Despite it's reputation as a borderless, global, connected, democratic network, access and content filtering based on national boarders has become the norm. The BBC, for example, filters content for copyright reasons to visitors accessing their website from outside of Great Britain. Much more serious, however, is the heavy political censorship happening in countries like China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. China, being the most extreme example, strictly censors political content on the web through the blocking of IP addresses and dynamic content filtering. With the support of western technology companies such as Cisco, Yahoo, and Google, The Golden Shield Project (sometimes referred to as the the Great Fire Wall of China) censors the web for China's 1.3 billion inhabitants. The Internet police in China is estimated to contain over 30,000 workers, and is responsible for blocking content such as Tibetan independence, Taiwan independence, police brutality, the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989, freedom of speech, democracy, religion, and some international news.

那我们再来看看Amazon的做法，有时实在找不到图片，就去Amazon去搜索，结果发现，Amazon中商品图片没有一张加水印。大站小站一眼就可以辨别出来，大器和小器也一下子就能看透。看完Amazon，再来看看淘宝，只要是有点儿电脑应用知识的，就会把店面装修的让买家眼前一亮，同时商品图片上也都加上了自己的水印。因为淘宝里搜索商品，重复的几率太高，为了防止其他卖家偷窃自己的劳动果实，只好加水印。

一是在“臭名昭著的市场”（notorious markets）部分中所提及的中国市场（包括虚拟的和真实的两类市场）中，除了延续去年报告，对百度网站（mp3）、秀水街、义乌小商品市场进行点名外，今年在虚拟市场中增加了以阿里巴巴和淘宝为代表的B2B和B2C网站（第7-8页）。与此相关，今年报告还提到瑞典网站PirateBay，美国产业界认为它是世界上最大的BT网站之一，也是最大的非法电影和音乐文件交换地。 　　二是有关“夏至行动”。报告提到了2007年7月6日中美合作开展的反盗版抓捕行动。这个事在今年4月26日的“今日说法”中刚播放过，点这里可察看（视频）。