<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Norbert Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net" target="_blank">nhklein@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Is it the “violations” that are the
problem – or is the real problem related to the way in which
copyrights are defined and handled? </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">As long as we, in the Internet
Society, proudly work under the slogan<b> “The Internet is for
everyone”</b> we seriously should take up the “real problems” at
the basis of the present copyrights regime and the grave
injustices which it creates, calling a very large numbers of
everyone using the Internet to be pirates. Pirates are violent
killers.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="AmericanTypewriter, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi Norbert,</div><div><br></div><div>I recall Lynn, I think it was at an ITU Conference a couple of years back, in response to a question about restrictive policies, saying that the open Internet routes around obstacles. I think that while social and application matters are a real and valid concern, it is the peculiar and transcendental purpose of the Internet Society to maintain the openness of the Internet, in order that such circumvention is always possible. </div>
<div> </div><div><br></div><div>In the case of Microsoft, valued organizational ISOC member that it is, Bill Gates has shown a sophisticated understanding of what he calls the "snowball effect" caused by having ubiquitous products, legitimate or otherwise. In fact, in my recollection, MS-DOS was the first widely used copying tool, capable of even duplicating itself! As it is we have seen in recent years the use restrictions for individual users on MS-OFFICE reduced from outright protection to voluntary activation. One imagines as much driven by the availability of open/free alternatives as any altruism.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope you managed to watch the related discussion at the Global INET (which I will soon transfer over to YouTube). I particularly liked the comments by Nick Ashton-Hart that in many cases the issue is not so much a copyright problem as a licensing one, and that, lacking any more detailed arrangement, the default should be permission.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Two recent books on copyright reform:</div><div><br></div><div>How To Fix Copyright - William Patry - Oxford University Press (not available for d/l but, as he notes in my recent video, torrentable)</div>
<div><br></div>The Case for Copyright Reform - Christian Engström + Rick Falkvinge -
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