SOPA Cabana

[Carlos_Gabriel]

O Tim Anderson, que tem um dos blogs sobre desenvolvimento de software/tecnologia que mais respeito, escreveu um artigo sobre o blackout de hoje, que posto a seguir. Opiniões esclarecidas, na minha visão, nunca são demais:

All Wikipedia English requests today redirect to a page protesting against proposed US legislation, specifically the draft SOPA and PIPA legislation.

Other sites will also be protesting, including Reddit (a 12 hour protest) and Mozilla, the Firefox people.

Many web searchers will be discovering the value of the cached pages held by search engines. That aside, this is a profound issue that is about more than just SOPA and PIPA. SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy, and PIPA Protect IP. The problem is that the internet is the powerful means of sharing information that mankind has devised. This brings many benefits, but not so much if it is your proprietary information that is being exchanged for free (music, video, ebooks, software) or if it gives easy access to counterfeit versions of your products, with designer handbags, watches, drugs and the like being particularly vulnerable, because intellectual property forms a large proportion of the value of the purchase.

If you consider this issue at the highest level, there are three broad solutions:

• Do nothing, on the grounds that the world has changed and there is nothing you can do that is effective. Technology has made some forms of copyright impossible to enforce. Affected businesses have to adapt to this new world.
  
• Introduce legislation that widens the responsibility for web sites that enable or facilitate copyright infringement beyond the sites themselves, to include search engines, ISPs and payment processors. One of the debates here is how much the owners of the pipes, the infrastructure on which the internet runs, should take legal responsibility for the content that flows through them. Such legislation might be somewhat effective, but at a heavy cost in terms of forcing many sites and services offline even if they have only a slight and tangential relationship to infringing content, and greatly raising the cost of providing services. At worst we might end up with a censored, filtered, limited, expensive internet that represents a step backwards in technology. The further risk is that that such legislation may put too much power in the hands of the already powerful, since winning legal arguments is in practice about financial muscle as well as facts, rights and wrongs.
  
• Find some middle path that successfully restrains the flow of infringing content but without damaging the openness of the internet or its low cost.
  

There is of course a risk that legislators may think they are implementing the third option, while in fact coming close to the second option. There is also a risk that attempting to implement the third option may in practice turn out to be the first option. It is a hard, complex problem; and while I agree that the proposed legislation is not the right legislation (though note that I am not in the USA), there is no disputing the core fact, that the internet facilitates copyright infringement.

There are also aspects of today’s internet that concern me as I see, for example, children relying on the outcome of Google searches to paste into their homework with little understanding of the distinction between what is authoritative, what is propaganda, and what is anecdotal or simply wrong.

In other words, the “no control” approach to the internet has a downside, even if the upside is so great that it is worth it.

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Editado 18 de janeiro de 2012 por Carlos_Gabriel

[Gustavo Reis Costa]

Também veja a página inicial do Google com a frase em inlgês: "Conte ao Congresso: Por favor, não censure a web!"

[Gustavo Reis Costa]

Saiu mais uma notícia no Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/

[Gustavo Reis Costa]

Saíram no Tecmundo!!!

http://tecmundo.com.br/pirataria/18033-quem-apagou-as-luzes-em-protesto-a-sopa-.htm

Sites brasileiros ao protesto contra o SOPA:

http://tecmundo.com.br/internet/17947-sites-brasileiros-podem-aderir-ao-protesto-contra-o-sopa.htm

[NandoGuisso]

Wordpress.org de greve tb, kkkk, legal isso, tomara que de certo pq tava precisando entra nesse site agora, mas melhor um dia do que nunca mais.

E ja ta na hora do MacMagazine falar sobre isso, tem gente que não entra em outros blogs de noticias.

Editado 18 de janeiro de 2012 por NandoGuisso

[Gustavo Reis Costa]

Wordpress.org de greve tb, kkkk, legal isso, tomara que de certo pq tava precisando entra nesse site agora, mas melhor um dia do que nunca mais.

E ja ta na hora do MacMagazine falar sobre isso, tem gente que não entra em outros blogs de noticias.

Os usuários de Mac leem só sobre Mac, Mac e Mac, não se interessam nisso nem sobre outras coisas não-Mac. afff Que mente fechada!

[NandoGuisso]

... afff Que mente fechada!

A minha ou a dos usuarios "MAC"?

Bom eu uso mac e gosto de saber sobre outros assuntos tecnologicos

[rott]

O nível de viagem nessa thread tá TENSO.

O SOPA é ruim e etc etc etc, mas podem tirar o capacete de papel alumínio...

[Carlos_Gabriel]

O nível de viagem nessa thread tá TENSO.

O SOPA é ruim e etc etc etc, mas podem tirar o capacete de papel alumínio...

Não é bem assim. O que falta é informação e entendimento. Por mais viajante que sejam algumas opiniões, acredito que o tópico continue válido.

[Gustavo Reis Costa]

A minha ou a dos usuarios "MAC"?

Bom eu uso mac e gosto de saber sobre outros assuntos tecnologicos

Dos outros.

[NandoGuisso]

Dos outros.

A ta

Tava vendo um outro blog ai falando que é a Terceira Guerra Mundial, tenso!!!!!