Yesterday, the police arrested the Chilean administrator of Cuevana. This is a website to watch movies, documentaries and series online. This fact is in addition to what have suffered the creators of sites like The Pirate Bay' and 'Megaupload' who have been sued for breaches of intellectual property.
The
defendants and plaintiffs have several characteristics in common. The
defendants are characterized by young, idealistic and natives of the web (i.e.,
had internet at their disposal from children). The plaintiffs are characterized
by being over 40, foreign to the web (many fail to understand how these websites
work) and tend to apply severe restrictions on such sites guided by the
principles of the major labels or large companies that profit from the
creativity of artists.
In
mid-February 2012, was closed a popular site known worldwide as 'Gigapedia',
whose address was library.nu. This site hosted about 1 million digital books of
all types. It hosted from bestsellers to college textbooks. What kind of damage
is that produced by sites like these?
How long to
spread knowledge is transformed into a crime? How much these websites help
emerging countries that most people have no purchasing power to spend money for
a book on traditional libraries?
How have
helped websites like ‘The Pirate Bay' movements as the "Arab spring"?
Has anyone stopped to think how much they have helped countries with high
inequality and even totalitarian regimes like North Korea?
I think we
are living in a situation similar to that predicted Ray Bradbury in his
dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, where the firemen instead of putting out fires,
were engaged in setting fire to books. I think that instead of arresting these
people, we should be stopping mass murderers, sex offenders, thieves "in
suits", drug dealers, etc. I think society makes the fatal mistake of
being more aware of the letter of the law instead of the spirit of the law.
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