E' sorprendente quanto spesso un mix di propaganda e di ragionamenti superficiali riesca ad oscurare il buon senso. Simon Phipps ribadisce in maniera chiara e convincente punti che dovrebbero essere condivisi da tutti (quasi). juan carlos Copyrights vs Human Rights December 28, 2010 8:30 AM by Simon Phipps I wrote last week <http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/three-strikes-typhoid-ma...> about the "Typhoid Mary" of internet restriction laws, observing how Wikileaks has confirmed that a wing of the US Government - the US Trade representative <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representativ...> (USTR) - has been systematically bullying European and other world governments. The goal has been to use threats against their other trade activities to force them to introduce laws that summarily restrict the freedom of their citizens to use the Internet - without judicial involvement, if possible. The bullying is distasteful, but it may be that you've not considered what's really wrong with the laws themselves. Bad Law What /is/ wrong with these laws? The problem is that USTR is being used as a puppet by powerful US-based multinational companies to protect their businesses against the inevitable gravity of the three technology laws <http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/techlaws.html>. It's not just that companies who built their business by freely using the contents of our collective cultural commons now want to strangle it (although they hypocritically do want that). It's not just that those same companies want their faltering business models shored-up by chilling effects, framing the celebration /by their customers/ of the culture /they are trying to create/ as akin to murder, rape and theft ("piracy"). It's not /even/ that the new laws give a bunch of businesses who have shown themselves to have severely asymmetric morals the power to simply accuse without proof to get results. Cultural Conduit No, the problem is much deeper than some of the campaigns against Internet restrictions laws designed around the idea of "Guilt Upon Accusation" would suggest. Our society has changed fundamentally in the last decade. The emergence of the world-wide web pushed the Internet from research curiosity into endemic facility, present in every office, then every home and now every pocket. It is now the medium for culture, for education, for finance, for politics, for engagement with government services. We will increasingly see the Internet be the /only/ way things can be done - it's already getting close to that way in some areas (airline bookings, tax filings, event tickets all being easy examples). [...] Continua qui: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/copyrights-vs-human-righ...