Re: [Solar-general] OT: Los problemas para las discograficas recién empiezan.

bubi bubi en opensa.com.ar
Vie Dic 21 16:53:50 CET 2007


las discográficas ya entienden bien que hacer.
Hoy en Clarin
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/12/21/elpais/p-02601.htm
saludos
bubi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sebastian Bassi" <sbassi en clubdelarazon.org>
To: "La lista de todos y todas en solar"
<solar-general en lists.ourproject.org>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 12:26 PM
Subject: [Solar-general] OT: Los problemas para las discograficas recién
empiezan.


> Esto es OT porque no es sobre software, pero muchas veces se habló
> (gracias a RMS) de la relación entre la moral y las leyes de
> copyright, por eso me parece relevante, salio hoy en el New York
> Times:
>
> The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
> By DAVID POGUE
>
> I've been doing a good deal of speaking recently. And in one
> of my talks, I tell an anecdote about a lesson I learned
> from my own readers.
>
>
> It was early in 2005, and a little hackware program called
> PyMusique was making the rounds of the Internet. PyMusique
> was written for one reason only: to strip the copy
> protection off of songs from the iTunes music store.
>
>
> The program's existence had triggered an online controversy
> about the pros, cons and implications of copy protection.
> But to me, there wasn't much gray area. "To me, it's
> obvious that PyMusique is designed to facilitate illegal
> song-swapping online," I wrote. And therefore, it's wrong
> to use it.
>
>
> Readers fired back with an amazingly intelligent array of
> counterexamples: situations where duplicating a CD or DVD
> may be illegal, but isn't necessarily *wrong.* They led me
> down a garden path of exceptions, proving that what seemed
> so black-and-white to me is a spectrum of grays.
>
>
> I was so impressed that I incorporated their examples into a
> little demonstration in this particular talk. I tell the
> audience: "I'm going to describe some scenarios to you.
> Raise your hand if you think what I'm describing is wrong."
>
>
> Then I lead them down the same garden path:
>
>
> "I borrow a CD from the library. Who thinks that's wrong?"
> (No hands go up.)
>
>
> "I own a certain CD, but it got scratched. So I borrow the
> same CD from the library and rip it to my computer." (A
> couple of hands.)
>
>
> "I have 2,000 vinyl records. So I borrow some of the same
> albums on CD from the library and rip those."
>
>
> "I buy a DVD. But I'm worried about its longevity; I have a
> three-year-old. So I make a safety copy."
>
>
> With each question, more hands go up; more people think what
> I'm describing is wrong.
>
>
> Then I try another tack:
>
>
> "I record a movie off of HBO using my DVD burner. Who thinks
> that's wrong?" (No hands go up. Of course not;
> time-shifting is not only morally O.K., it's actually
> legal.)
>
>
> "I *meant* to record an HBO movie, but my recorder
> malfunctioned. But my buddy recorded it. Can I copy his
> DVD?" (A few hands.)
>
>
> "I meant to record an HBO movie, but my recorder
> malfunctioned and I don't have a buddy who recorded it. So
> I rent the movie from Blockbuster and copy that." (More
> hands.)
>
>
> And so on.
>
>
> The exercise is intended, of course, to illustrate how many
> shades of wrongness there are, and how many different
> opinions. Almost always, there's a lot of murmuring, raised
> eyebrows and chuckling.
>
>
> Recently, however, I spoke at a college. It was the first
> time I'd ever addressed an audience of 100 percent young
> people. And the demonstration bombed.
>
>
> In an auditorium of 500, no matter how far my questions went
> down that garden path, maybe two hands went up. I just
> could not find a spot on the spectrum that would trigger
> these kids' morality alarm. They listened to each example,
> looking at me like I was nuts.
>
>
> Finally, with mock exasperation, I said, "O.K., let's try
> one that's a little less complicated: You want a movie or
> an album. You don't want to pay for it. So you download
> it."
>
>
> There it was: the bald-faced, worst-case example, without
> any nuance or mitigating factors whatsoever.
>
>
> "Who thinks that might be wrong?"
>
>
> Two hands out of 500.
>
>
> Now, maybe there was some peer pressure involved; nobody
> wants to look like a goody-goody.
>
>
> Maybe all this is obvious to you, and maybe you could have
> predicted it. But to see this vivid demonstration of the
> generational divide, in person, blew me away.
>
>
> I don't pretend to know what the solution to the
> file-sharing issue is. (Although I'm increasingly convinced
> that copy protection isn't it.)
>
>
> I do know, though, that the TV, movie and record companies'
> problems have only just begun. Right now, the customers who
> can't even *see* why file sharing might be wrong are still
> young. But 10, 20, 30 years from now, that crowd will be
> *everybody*. What will happen then?
>
>
>
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/technology/personaltech/20pogue-email.html?8cir&emc=cir
>
>
> -- 
> Sebastián Bassi (セバスティアン). Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnología.
> Curso Biologia molecular para programadores: http://tinyurl.com/2vv8w6
> GPG Fingerprint: 9470 0980 620D ABFC BE63 A4A4 A3DE C97D 8422 D43D
>


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----


_______________________________________________
Solar-general mailing list
Solar-general en lists.ourproject.org
https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/solar-general


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----


No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.5/1191 - Release Date: 20/12/2007
14:14




Más información sobre la lista de distribución Solar-general