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Até+ GM > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:46:40 -0400 > From: Seth Johnson <seth.john...@realmeasures.dyndns.org> > Subject: [p2p-hackers] ISOC-Philippines on Pirate Bay, Dr. Potel > To: p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com, decentralizat...@yahoogroups.com > Message-ID: <49ef1fc0.f9278...@realmeasures.dyndns.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > >> http://isoc.ph/portal/2009/04/isoc-philippines-statement-on-pirate-bay-and-potel/ > > > ISOC-Philippines statement on the jail sentence for The Pirate Bay > founders and the criminal charges against philosophy professor Horacio > Potel > > > By isoc-ph, on April 20, 2009, 2:05 am > > > The Internet Society Philippines? (ISOC-PH) Public Policy Principles > and activities are based upon a fundamental belief that ?The Internet > is for everyone.? ISOC-PH upholds and defends core values that allow > people throughout the world to enjoy the benefits of the Internet. > > Recent developments, however, demonstrate an alarming growth towards a > ?license culture? on the Internet, imposed by the criminalization of > those whose culture and society advance creativity, innovation and > economic opportunity through the values of openness, sharing, > education and collaboration. > > Philosophy professor Horacio Potel from Argentina is facing criminal > charges for maintaining a personal and educational website devoted to > Spanish translations of works by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. > > A court in Sweden has found the four men behind ?The Pirate Bay?, a > file-sharing website, guilty of breaking copyright law and were > sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5m (?3m) in damages. > > The Ability to Share is one of ISOC?s core values. The many-to-many > architecture of the Internet makes it a powerful tool for sharing, > education, and collaboration. It has enabled the global open source > community to develop and enhance many of the key components of the > Internet, such as the Domain Name System and the World-Wide Web, and > has made the vision of digital libraries a reality. To preserve these > benefits we will oppose technologies and legislation that would > inhibit the freedom to develop and use open source software or limit > the well-established concept of fair use, which is essential to > scholarship, education, and collaboration. > > We will also oppose excessively restrictive governmental or private > controls on computer hardware or software, telecommunications > infrastructure, or Internet content. Such controls and restrictions > substantially diminish the social, political, and economic benefits of > the Internet. > > The wire-tapping, searches and seizures, the removal of website > content and the criminal charges against professor Potel of the > University of Buenos Aires is an onslaught on human rights and > academic freedom in Argentina and on the Internet. > > The police seizures of servers, the enormous bill for damages and the > jail sentence on Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl > Lundstrom and Peter Sunde is a defiance of the social and cultural > institution of file-sharing in Sweden and on the Internet. > > ISOC-PH founding member and lawyer Michael Dizon writes, ?Putting > greater emphasis on the development of social or community norms and > how people can actively participate in the creation of these norms ? > may be more advantageous in advancing creative culture than resorting > to contractual agreements. Ideally, laws (and the licenses that seek > to enforce rights based on these laws) should embody and uphold the > norms and values of a community, and not the other way around.? > > As founding president of the newly rejuvenated ISOC-Philippines > Chapter, I would like to dispute some of the statements being made > regarding the Pirate Bay trials, in particular, by John Kennedy, > Chairman and CEO of the International Federation of the Phonographic > Industry. Mr Kennedy says, > > ?This is good news for everyone, in Sweden and internationally, who is > making a living or a business from creative activity and who needs to > know their rights will protected by law.? > > In keeping with the ISOC-PH mandate, I find it offensive to the > diversity of cultures on the Internet the claim that the global model > of copyright protection being imposed upon the developers and users of > the Internet is ?good news for everyone.? > > I also find it hard to accept the sincerity of Mr Kennedy?s statement > about ?making a living or a business from creative activity.? In fact > only a handful of media corporations have effectively taken over what > used to be a very diverse field of creative activity. > > Such a process of consolidation and privatization has created gross > inequality between artists and the big media corporations: relations > between artists and recording companies are replete with exploitative > contracts and bitter legal struggles for control; and royalties and > other earnings from copyright constitute only a fraction of the income > of most active professional artists. > > The Pirate Bay trials and the criminal charges against professor Potel > are a threat to academic freedom and free speech, and they undermine > the Internet core value of the Ability to Share. If we envision a > future in which people in all parts of the world can use the Internet > to improve their quality of life, then freedom, and not a ?license > culture?, must be obtained for professor Potel, the Pirate Bay > founders and the Internet communities of sharing. > > ISOC-PH calls on all Internet citizens to demand freedom. > > Fatima Lasay > President > Internet Society Philippines Chapter > http://isoc.ph/portal/ > > Quezon City, Philippines > April 20, 2009 > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > End of p2p-hackers Digest, Vol 35, Issue 11 > ******************************************* -- Guillaume MULLER Post-Doc - Sala C2-50 Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes (LTI) Depto. Eng. Computação e Sistemas Digitai(PCS) Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo Av. 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