If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if if value, then right is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector...
If piracy means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry affected by copyright today is the pr...
[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and mi...
Why should it be that just when technology ismost encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?
Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get i...
Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too...
But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality...
Os participantes das redes de compartilhamento de arquivos compartilham diferentes tipos de conteúdos. Podemos dividi-los em quatro tipos.A-Esses são aqueles que usam as redes P2P como substitutos par...
Esse ciclo diferenciado é possível porque as pressões comerciais que existem em outros meios não existem nos blogs. A televisão e os jornais são entidades comerciais. Elas precisam trabalhar para mant...
Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovator’s Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it rati...
E ele permite aos leitores triangularem a verdade, como Winer definiu. Os blogs, Winer afirma, são uma comunicação direta do constituinte, sem interferências de intermediários com todos os benefícios...
A defesa de idéias, a argumentação e a crítica melhoram a democracia.
The candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover,
In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?