Lecture Eight Summary

Summary of lecture: Internet censorship and file sharing

Internet Filtering
*Censorship and internet filtering are closely related
* Internet filtering allows the government to filter websites (what you can view and what you can’t). This is a proposal, but has not been passed.
*Spread the word in order to get people talking

File Sharing
*The content industry (friends of traditional copyright- the “copyright mafia”), the content publisher acts on behalf of the creator; creative commons industry (protects your labours, but still makes it available to people by cutting out the middle man-the content publisher).
*One big controversy includes music and movie download piracy- e.g. - stopping Napster
*Piracy will never stop; consequences need to be tough, tedious and strict.
*” Intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century”
*The network (the internet) was built with nobody in charge, everyone is partly in charge of their own work