On Monday I did the first half of my catchup work. Now we’ll do the second half. And one of the big issues coming up is copyright. Over the last thirty years, copyright in America has been radically reformed. While traditionally it worked as patents still do work, as a temporary grant of monopoly enforceable in civil courts, we’ve gradually moved them into the realm of criminal law enforced indefinitely. And I believe we’re gone too far in that direction.
So when I hear about the COICA, a new copyright and counterfeiting law promoted by the Obama administration, I’m concerned. At a fundamental level, the COICA would give too much power to government to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist. No, copyright is not at serious risk in America today. It is simply certain business models that are failing, and it is not the place of government to try to prop them up.
It is true that the RIAA’s members are not as successful as they have been in the past, with music revenue down almost by 50% from their highs. But the blame for that cannot rest with the Internet. The blame lies with the RIAA for failing to act. If we assume that it is not a coincidence that the RIAA’s peak came with the launch of Napster, the question still remains to be answered why it took until took until 2003, four years later, for the RIAA to enter the online world?
It was pure, blind greed that caused the RIAA to cling to its out of date CD model with outlandish album pricing, not a problem of “piracy,” that harmed their business. Giving government more power will not fix that. Contrast with the MPAA, whose box office success continues to grow even as new markets like Netflix bring in previously untapped revenue streams. The business of copyright continues to boom, but only if you do it right.
So when Eric Holder and the Obama administration ask to create a national blacklist of websites to solve an alleged crisis of copyright, I say no. I say there is no crisis of lawbreaking, but rather a failure of business models to adapt to the new world online. Let the free market flourish.
Speaking of copyright, it’s hard for Sony to claim that there’s something horribly illegal about distributing their secret keys when Sony’s own marketing people will “retweet” them on Twitter, eh?
Moving on, the Internet Kill Switch bill is going to be a thorn in our sides until we beat it for good, so it’s good that John Harper hits it over at Tech Liberation Front. Key quote:
No amount of tailoring can make a bad idea a good one. The Internet kill-switch debate is not about the precision or care with which such a policy might be designed or implemented. It’s about the galling claim on the part of Senators Lieberman, Collins, and Carper that the U.S. government can seize private assets at will or whim.
Back to Net Neutrality, John Stossel has tackled the issue applying his trademark style of down-to-Earth libertarianism to explain how wrong headed the radicals are on Internet regulation:
Of course, Free Press continues to push for comprehensive “media reform” amounting to state-run media in America. Oh to be a fly on the wall at that conference, but my cash is earmarked for seeing good people on our side!
Ready for some privacy? Google may or may not be, when the firm is being accused of working to gobble up children’s Social Security Numbers using a contest as bait. Given the firm’s expertise in database building, the concern is worth a look, but ultimately I believe the burden is on parents to be careful. Don’t trust websites without good reason, folks!
The push continues to investigate the WiSpy Street View scandal, a serious incident of mass, organized wardriving that Google has confessed to. However Google claims there’s a vast tech conspiracy against them headed by Microsoft, which is ridiculous when you consider the numerous high level ties between the Obama administration and Google, as well as Google’s ongoing efforts to increase government regulation online. Poor widdle victims.
For many, “security reasons” mentioned by the authorities are related to the recent revolutions and uprisings that have taken place throughout Africa since the beginning of the year. This unrest also affected Cameroon, though to a lesser extent than its African counterparts, on February 23, 2011. It's the opinion shared by @mambenanje:
But according to blogger Dibussi Tande, the Cameroonian Government got it all wrong:
Obviously, the government has failed to learn the lesson from North Africa. (…) It was information obtained via mobile phones, regular SMS and email which ended up on Twitter and not real-time tweets from activists on the ground. Thus, banning the Twitter short code does little to change the balance of power online.
Cameroonian netizens seem nevertheless resourceful. Blogger Djia Think posted an article on “OpenMesh, the ultimate weapon to keep our freedom of communication” that introduces the OpenMesh project:
C’est dans l’optique de lutter contre ses coups portés à la liberté de communication que Shervin Pishevar proposait le 27 Février 2011, le projet OpenMesh qui consiste à former un réseau maillée, où les hommes joueront le rôle des routeurs Internet
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