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Fwd: [opennetcoalition] EU Commission Sticks to Flawed Copyright Repression
by Paolo Brini May 23, 2011

May 23, 2011

-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [opennetcoalition] EU Commission Sticks to Flawed Copyright Repression Data: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:34:08 +0200 Mittente: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> Rispondi-a: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net A: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-commission-sticks-to-flawed-copyright-rep… EU Commission Sticks to Flawed Copyright Repression *** Paris, May 23rd, 2011 – Today, the EU Commission releases its “intellectual property rights strategy”. Unsurprisingly, the Commission calls for preventing copyright infringements on the Internet “at the source”, by forcing Internet companies such as hosters and access providers to obey the entertainment industries. In practice, turning these actors into a copyright police comes down to establishing a censorship regime, paving the way for dangerous breaches of fundamental rights. *** For years, policy-makers have been implementing repressive schemes to fight not-for-profit exchanges of copyrighted works by individuals over the Internet. Ever since they lost control over the distribution channels of cultural works, the biggest entertainment majors have relentlessly explained that the whole creative economy is going bankrupt. But an evidence-based approach to the filesharing phenomenon shows that the negative impact of so-called piracy is a myth: those who exchange cultural works on the Internet are fans, not free-riders. Even the study commissioned by the infamous HADOPI – the agency in charge of implementing the three-strike scheme in France – showed that people who share cultural works online declare spending more on cultural goods than consumers who do not [1]. Similarly, live performances are booming and ticket sales for movie theatres are at all-time highs [2]. Sharers are actually the creative sector's best customers. “The sharing of culture between individuals is a positive force for the creative economy, cultural diversity and access to culture. Even though facilitating the commercial distribution of creative works on the Internet is positive, it can not be done at the expense of criminalizing a practice which has obvious benefits, if one dares consider the evidence.” says Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net. Although the Commission explains that the IPRED directive will be revised to step up the repression of online infringements, it is hard to see a principle-basis. It is all the more worrying that, as announced by Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, what the Commission envisions is extra-judicial enforcement of copyright at the core of the Internet's architecture. Following Nicolas Sarkozy's realization that measures weighing on Internet users are political and technical failures [3], the Commission is trying to compel Internet actors to police their services and networks [4], as we explain in our response to the consultation of the anti-sharing IPRED directive. This would turn Internet companies into a private copyright police and justice, violating the right to a fair trial, freedom of expression and privacy [5]. “Like the United States with the PROTECT IP Act, the goal of EU authorities is to use technical means to block communications and restrict users' access in the name of enforcing an obsolete vision of copyright. Such a scheme would lead to the establishment of a censorship infrastructure by online actors, technically similar to those currently used in authoritarian states. In the process, freedom of communication, privacy as well as the right to a fair trial would inevitably be undermined.”, says Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson of La Quadrature du Net. “This shift towards an increased role of Internet platforms in preventing the sharing of cultural works online is alarming. It comes down to transforming the very architecture of the Internet for the sole benefit of a few corporate players. Their harmful influence on policy-making is keeping us away from a crucial reflection on how to fund the creative economy of the 21st century.”, concludes Zimmermann. * Références * 1. See p. 45 of the document: http://www.hadopi.fr/download/hadopiT0.pdf (in French). This is just a recent example in a long series of such studies. Several other independent studies – including some from the OECD, IPSOS, the Canadian Department of Industry and other academic as well as governmental sources – show a neutral or positive economic impact of file-sharing on the creative sector. See an index of these studies: http://lqdn.fr/p2pstudies 2. See the example of France, http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/cinema/2010-annee-record-pour-les-salles-obs… (in French) 3. In early 2010, Nicolas Sarkozy said that: “Hadopi must develop more modern solutions to protect creative works, and to hold a vigilant and permanent dialogue with the web's actors. The more we can automatically de-pollute networks and servers of all sources of piracy, the less it will be necessary to take measures against Internet users. We must therefore experiment without delay filtering measures.” See: http://www.elysee.fr/download/?mode=press&filename=100107-discours-Voeux_cu… (in French) 4. The Commission explains that the anti-sharing IPRED directive will soon be revised to “tackle the infringements at their source and, to that end, foster cooperation of intermediaries, such as Internet service providers” 5. By doing so, the Commission would violate the e-Commerce directive, which was adopted in 2000 to promote the development of the digital economy while fostering freedom of expression online, and which shelters Internet actors from having to police the Internet. ** About la Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that promotes the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations : http://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-squaring-net-la-quadrature-du-n… ** Press contact and press room ** Jérémie Zimmermann, jz(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)615 940 675 http://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room _______________________________________________ Opennetcoalition mailing list Opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net http://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition

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Il diritto d'autore è morto
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it May 23, 2011

May 23, 2011

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Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 23, 2011

May 23, 2011

*Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions* *Press release:* http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Digital_Public_Library_America_Beta_S… The Digital Public Library of America <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla> (DPLA) Steering Committee seeks innovations from individuals, libraries, organizations, and others that could play a part in the building of a digital public library. Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey presents the DPLA Beta Sprint in the following short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmO-qUzjxM The Beta Sprint seeks, ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user interfaces, etc.---put forth as a written statement, a visual display, code, or a combination of forms---that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content. The Beta Sprint also encourages development of betas that suggest alternative designs or that focus on particular parts of the system, rather than on the DPLA as a whole. While submissions should be consonant with the description of the DPLA that is set forth in the four-page Concept Note <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dpla/Concept_Note> posted on the DPLA wiki, the notion is not that we expect anything to be "done," but rather that submissions be expressive of a direction in which we might take the DPLA. [...] Continua qui: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/

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Guardian: "Hargreaves report recommends overhaul of copyright laws"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 21, 2011

May 21, 2011

Hargreaves report recommends overhaul of copyright laws /Report says archaic intellectual property laws obstruct innovation and economic growth, particularly online/ * Mark Sweney <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/marksweney> * guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Wednesday 18 May 2011 09.55 BST Professor Ian Hargreaves has made 10 major recommendations to free-up restrictive intellectual property <http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/intellectual-property> and copyright laws that "obstruct innovation and economic growth in the UK". Hargreaves, who has today published the conclusions of a five-month review in a 123-page report, found that businesses aiming to take advantage of opportunities in areas such as the internet are being held back by often archaic laws. "Could it be true that laws designed more than three centuries ago, with the express purpose of creating economic incentives for innovation by protecting creators' rights, are today obstructing innovation and economic growth?" said Hargreaves. "The short answer is: yes." Hargreaves said that the single biggest failing in the current system relates to copyright -- "once the exclusive concern of authors and their publishers" -- for which the current laws are "falling behind what are needed". [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/may/18/hargreaves-report-recommends-over…

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Released Neubot 0.3.7
by Simone Basso May 20, 2011

May 20, 2011

Released Neubot 0.3.7 http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.3.7 Version 0.3.7 is the fourth generally-available stable release of Neubot, coming after two months of hard work. It is distributed as: a .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu; a zipped application for MacOSX; an installer for Windows XP SP3+. It is also available in source format. This release contains 483 patches, accounting for about 25% of the whole project history. The diffstat says that 131 files have been changed, with 9753 inserted lines, and 12362 deleted lines. Given this large amount of changes it's not possible to list them all, so here we pick just the most relevant ones: o the speedtest Test has been rewritten for improved robustness and reliability; o the privacy policy has been improved to allow the project to share results with other researchers in a better way. Please, take some time to read the improved privacy policy and set the privacy permissions. In order to do that, open the web user interface of Neubot (at http://127.0.0.1:9774/) then go to the "Privacy" tab; o the web user interface has been extended and now includes: a tab to view Neubot logs; a tab to fine-tune privacy permissions; a tab to control all the settings; o the architecture of Neubot has been improved for transparency, allowing to trace and close various bugs; o the core of Neubot has been extended so that now it is possible to configure almost everything from the web user interface; o also, now the configuration of Neubot lives into the database, again to allow to adjust settings via the web user interface; o the architecture of Neubot has been improved for modularity, to simplify the task of writing new Tests; o the database, that used to store opaque results in XML format, now saves them into a table allowing for more advanced filtering and analysis from the web interface. Most of the code has been tested for a long time, thanks to an improved everyday write-test-deploy workflow. The release has been tested for seven days on Ubuntu Linux 10.10, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7, and MacOSX 10.6. Packages and source archives available here: http://www.neubot.org/download ChangeLog here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/blob/0.3.7/ChangeLog Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.3.7 People that contributed to this release: Simone Basso Antonio Servetti Federico Morando Juan Carlos De Martin Claudio Artusio Monica Alessia Senor Alessio Palmero Aprosio Roberto D'Auria Lorenzo Filiberti Thank you, Simone Basso <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso>

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TED Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 20, 2011

May 20, 2011

Niente di nuovo per chi frequenta questa lista, ma comunque importante e ben detto. juan carlos Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.

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Internet freedom: how should Europe battle online censorship?
by Marco Pancini May 20, 2011

May 20, 2011

Per chi di voi è a Bruxelles lunedì prossimo, vi segnalo questo evento: http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2011/05/internet-freedom-how-should-… Un caro saluto. marco -- Marco Pancini Senior Policy Counsel - Google Chaussee d'Etterbeek 180 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium Desk: +32.(0) 28948492 - Mobile: +32.(0) 473531203 This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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Re: [nexa] R: "Current Tv chiude? Arrivederci online"
by Vittorio Pasteris May 20, 2011

May 20, 2011

In effetti secondo quanto dicono quelli di Current Italia la possibilità di passare allo streaming è un'utopia Il modello economico non sarebbe sostenibile. Non si riesce a pagare 30 persone in Italia vivendo solo di rete. Dovrebbe cambiare il business model di Current e diventare una specie di tv online mischiata con un giornale digitale, ma in ogni caso occorrerebbe licenziare molta gente che lavora per la televisione che inevitabilmente perderebbe di qualità. Ci sarebbe l'ipotesi di passare al digitale terrestre ... Però convertire il business model al digital terrestre comporta il dover mettere in piedi l'infrastruttura di emissione che ora è a carico di Sky in più bisognerebbe gestirai la raccolta pubblicitaria internamente ad oggi fatta anche questa da Sky. I costi sarebbero altissimi e in due mesi è praticamente impossibile. VP Il 20/05/11 10.52, Giorgio Ventre ha scritto: > Addio telecomando. Benvenuto mouse. Forse la transizione dalla vecchia > televisione alla “internevisione” la dovremo fare per respirare un po’ > di aria pura. > > Passare da un modello broadcast ad un modello streaming può non essere > facile ma può riservare delle piacevole sorprese. Eliminando i costi > della distribuzione broadcast (satellitare o meno) ci si può concentrare > sui contenuti. Ed ipotizzare palinsesti su misura ed una guida TV > on-line o inviata per posta elettronica o magari su una App. Anche > perché sono sicuro che se si andasse a studiare la platea di Current TV > scopriremmo che per oltre il 90% è fatta da utenti ampliamente > “digitali” e con propensione alla innovazione. E semmai ci mettiamo > Paypal per consentirci il pay-per-stream di alcuni contenuti. Il bello > di essere una TV di nicchia, insomma. > > Un caro saluto > > Giorgio > > *Da:*nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it > [mailto:nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it] *Per conto di *Masera Anna > *Inviato:* giovedì 19 maggio 2011 22.50 > *A:* nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > *Oggetto:* [nexa] "Current Tv chiude? Arrivederci online" > *Priorità:* Alta > > Current Tv chiude? "Arrivederci online" > <http://www.lastampa.it/cmstp/rubriche/girata.asp?ID_blog=2&ID_articolo=1197…> > Il documentarista Andrea Cairola, regista di "Citizen Berlusconi": > "Lasciamo il telecomando ad impolverarsi" > > http://www.lastampa.it/cmstp/rubriche/girata.asp?ID_blog=2&ID_articolo=1197… > <http://www.lastampa.it/cmstp/rubriche/girata.asp?ID_blog=2&ID_articolo=1197…>= > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

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"Current Tv chiude? Arrivederci online"
by Masera Anna May 20, 2011

May 20, 2011

Current Tv chiude? "Arrivederci online"<http://www.lastampa.it/cmstp/rubriche/girata.asp?ID_blog=2&ID_articolo=1197…> Il documentarista Andrea Cairola, regista di "Citizen Berlusconi": "Lasciamo il telecomando ad impolverarsi" http://www.lastampa.it/cmstp/rubriche/girata.asp?ID_blog=2&ID_articolo=1197…

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Manuale: 'Bypassing Internet Censorship'
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 19, 2011

May 19, 2011

http://howtobypassinternetcensorship.org/ *About* This manual, 'Bypassing Internet Censorship', provides an introduction to the topic and explains some of the software and methods most often used for circumventing censorship. There is some information on avoiding surveillance and other means of detection while bypassing censorship, however this is a large topic in itself so we have only addressed it where it coincides directly with issues of circumvention. A full discussion of techniques for maintaining anonymity and preventing detection of content or activities is beyond the scope of this book. How and by whom this book was written The first version of this manual featured content that had been largely written at a Book Sprint that took place in November 2008 in the beautiful hills of Upper New York State in the USA. Eight people worked together over an intensive five-day period to produce the book. The updated version of this manual that you are currently reading was compiled in the context of a second Book Sprint held near Berlin, Germany, in early 2011. This time, 11 people worked together over an intensive five-day period. This book is a living document of course and is available online for free, where you can also edit it and improve it. In addition to the material written during the two Book Sprints, material has been contributed from previous publications. These include contributions from: * Ronald Deibert * Ethan Zuckerman * Roger Dingledine * Nart Villeneuve * Steven Murdoch * Ross Anderson * Freerk Ohling * Frontline Defenders * Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, Jillian York, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey from The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University These writers kindly agreed to let us use their material within a GPL licensed environment.

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