10. juuni 2012

Internet has to be borderless and free

If these countries oppressed only their own citizens, we might satisfy ourselves with an attitude of benign neglect. Yet these countries' elites have realized they can put their fingers on the economic scales to tip them in their own favour. Intellectual property, R&D investments both public and private, make modern Western economies run. A Western company that invests hundreds of millions or billions in new products can see this all evaporate if the research is stolen. (Recent US Congressional testimony by former FBI Assistant Director Shaun Henry gives some examples.) Someone, somewhere else, can obtain for free what your country's best and brightest have developed, often from years of research. The innovator loses his investment, your country loses the tax revenue, and someone else reaps the profits. This is piracy. Pure and simple. It is as dangerous and as threatening as earlier, more primitive forms of piracy off the Barbary Coast at the beginning of the 19th century, or today off the coast of Somalia. And it will only get worse.
by Toomas Hendrik Ilves

All this is mostly the fault of international community of never recognizing the internationalism of internet.  Nothing can any more be controlled by one country. It is vital not to suppress multiple laws to the thing, what is international in essence.

We see more than ever that collective work does not have any borders, nationalities and cultures. So why the laws of the countries need to make it so difficult? Estonia is a good example to provide media borderless for their people. But for Americans, English and French the traveling is hard and complicated. How many times I have to hear from them that I cannot use Hulu, iTunes, Pandora outside of US? All I can say is that I am lucky of living in Lisbon and I can listen, read and watch everything from MY country.

It can be explained with the birth of aviation. Wright brothers were not alone. The birth of aviation was collaborative work of 10 people/teams. They were just recorded as first. Just what internet has provided is to share ideas, work and money faster and to the people who are interested.

Piracy in essence is lack of choice. People are not pirating things to steal. People are pirating to have a choice! Why Netflix is struggling to bring their service worldwide? It is only because of laws witch are national and not international. The ACTA and SOPA are just examples how we are making things more complicated and controlled.

To conclude I thing it is important to make internet companies and web-pages borderless, under cover of UN. So there cannot be any more raids to twitter office by FBI.

Internet needs to be controlled but only by ONE law!

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