Mas apenas eleições não fazem uma democracia. Democracia quer dizer poder para o povo, mas poder quer dizer algo mais que apenas eleições. Em nossa tradição isso também significa controle através de c...
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions...
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through th...
The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.
Mas além da arquitetura, os blogs também resolveram o problema das regras. Não existe (ainda) nenhuma regra no meio dos blogs que diga que não deve-se falar de política. Na verdade, o meio está replet...
It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. M...
So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our government is a perfectly rational response to the government we have. The question isn't what we know. Th...
The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died f...
Finalmente podemos argumentar que esse tipo de pirataria na verdade ajuda o dono do copyright. Quando os chineses pirateiam o Windows, isso torna a China dependente da Microsoft. A Microsoft perde o v...
E assim, quando os geeks e os tecnólogos defendem as tecnologias dos novos Armstrongs ou irmãos Wright, muitos de nós nos tornamos simplesmente hostis. O bom senso não fica revoltado. Diferentemente c...
A TV a cabo também nasceu de uma forma de pirataria.Quando os empreendedores do cabo começaram a fornecer às comunidades com TV a cabo em 1948, muitos deles negaram-se a pagar às redes de TV pelo cont...
The struggle in that world will not be government’s. It will be to assure that essential liberties are preserved in this environment of perfect control. As Siva Vaidhyanathan puts it,
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have muchless driving.
Existe um outro motivo para o fato dos blogs terem um ciclo de vida diferente dos principais meios de comunicação. Como Dave Winer, um dos pais desse movimento e um desenvolvedor de software por vária...
Esse protecionismo não visa proteger os artistas. Na verdade, esse é um protecionismo que visa proteger certas formas de negócio. As corporações ameaçadas pelo potencial da Internet em mudar a forma c...
We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money.
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
Every schoolchild learns of L’Enfant’s design to make an invasion of Washington difficult. But more interesting is the placement of the White House relative to the Capitol. The distance between them i...
Code will be a central tool in this analysis. It will present the greatest threat to both liberal and libertarian ideals, as well as their greatest promise. We can build, or architect, or code cybersp...
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.