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The struggle for the defense of the Internet and free culture grows stronger year after year, inseparable from the struggle to consolidate the paradigm change that goes hand in hand with the digital era. 2012 has seen civil society win great victories over the barbarians: Social pressure has led to the rejection of the fearsome ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA laws; the UN has recognised freedom of expression on the Internet as a basic right; the EU has declared that filtering links is illegal; the Swiss government has legalised filesharing; the German Constitutional Court has prioritised the right to freedom of expression and information over the interests of cultural lobbies; the Hargreaves Report recommends a fair reform of copyright in the UK; Pablo Soto has been absolved; a European ruling declared that bars, gyms, hairdressers and similar businesses do not have to pay royalties to collection societies; anti-downloading legislation is failing; IP addresses are not accepted as evidence to persecute users in the US… Nevertheless, we must not let our guard down. New dangers are always lying in wait for sharing and for the Internet as we know it. As Cory Doctorow, rightly says, “the copyright wars are just the beta version of a long coming war on computation.” Copyright lobbies and those in power are always imagining ways to gain ever-tighter control over the way we use computers. Attacks posing as defense of copyright were only the beginning. Further battlefields will be deployed in an attempt to seize civil society’s potential to bring about the cultural and economic – as well as political and social – renewal that the Net is making possible. more here... http://2012.fcforum.net/en/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
