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| | Copyright is no longer needed in the Internet society where we live in |
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> | "Where we live in" doesn't work. "In which we live," or "where we live" or even "society" full stop would be better choices. |
| | -- By DiegodelaPuente - 15 Nov 2011 |
| | - Fred Wilson, Freemium and Freeconomics (July 4, 2009) (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/07/freemium-and-freeconomics.html) |
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> | Once again, you should
rewrite in actual hypertext, putting the links in the text where they
can be consulted with minimal breakage of flow in reading. They're
very much less useful here. You use "economical" throughout these
grafs where "economic" is colloquial. |
| | The blindness continues
Despite the economical and social reasons given above to eliminate Copyright; once more, as in the case of telecommunications regulation, U.S. Congress has favored private interests and is attempting to strengthen Copyright by means of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), that tries to expand the U.S. Department of Justice and copyright holders’ power allowing seeking court orders against websites outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Moreover, without understanding our actual technological sharing world without frontiers, Representative Lamar Smith, one of the chief sponsors of the bill, said, “SOPA is needed because rogue websites are stealing and selling American innovations”. |
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> | No. Congress wasn't
trying to do that, and isn't going to do it. Congress was trying to
take the money of people who want to do that, while also taking the
money of those who want it not to be done. They have
succeeded. |
| | Content industries monopolies, particularly represented by the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America and Business Software Alliance have rejected the discussed vision of a world with the absence of Copyright, primarily by their fear to loose the millionaire earnings they received under the current ownership system and try to district public attention and opinion disguising their intentions stating that Copyright will protect artist’s intellectual property, including the resultant revenue and jobs. Even the Obama Administration itself has played an active role in secret negotiations between Hollywood, the recording industry and ISPs in this matter as Wired Magazine has revealed recently.
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> | Actually, the primary
difference between the WH and the Congress here was only that the WH
tried to take both sides' money while also engaging in responsible
policy-making. But, having in mind that it's an election year, which
means that anybody with any muscle and skill can stop anything, it
was really a rigged game in the first place. Your analysis, like
most of what's been written about this, has not the slightest tinge
of reality to it. |
| | - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act |
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> | Once again, you should incorporate the links into the text. If they on't help with what you've written, this isn't the place for them, either. |
| | Stop Online Piracy Act
- Stop Online Piracy Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act) |
| | - What would Jesus hack? Cybertheology: Just how much does Christian doctrine have in common with the open-source software movement?, The Economist (http://www.economist.com/node/21527031) |
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> | Overall, I think you've done a pretty good job of expanding around the edges of the argument I offered in class. Ithiel de Sola Pool was indeed very perceptive very early, but he didn't follow up. Danny Colligan, on the other hand, has never in my recollection said anything I haven' said first.
But I think the most evident avenue to improvement of the essay is to
drop the never-accurate and now evidently imprecise analysis of the
significance of SOPA/PIPA. There's a purely US context, which has to
do with the shifting politics of Hollywood and the Net: this marks the
past-noonday start of Hollywood's decline as a political heavyweight.
Night will come on fast.
But the more important realities are international, having to do with
the overall confrontation now unrolling between states and
intermediaries: their tame telecomms, the North American data miners,
etc. In this confrontation, "copyright piracy" is just one among
many excuses for efforts to implant state power more deeply in the
Net, and by no means the most important. The real issue here, I
think, is what you want to build the second half of the paper on,
given that the US legislation is now revealed to be no part of the
major issue. |
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