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- 1. war on digital sharing glyn moody ย ย
- 2. battles ๎ No Electronic Theft Act, DMCA ๎ SOPA/PIPA ๎ European Copyright Directive ๎ HADOPI (France); Digital Economy Act (UK); Ley Sinde (Spain); Section 92A (New Zealand); Copyright Act (Korea); US "6 strikes" ๎ ACTA, TPP ย ย
- 3. collateral damage ๎ criminalisation of everyday acts ๎ assumption of guilt ๎ disproportionate punishments ๎ extra-judicial punishments ๎ collective punishments ๎ loss of privacy ๎ loss of freedom of speech ย ย
- 4. in the beginning... ๎ first CD appeared in 1982 ๎ without any kind of copy protection ๎ because it was impossible to copy the CD's 700 Mbytes of data: the 1983 IBM PC XT had a 10 Mbytes hard disc โ less than one song ๎ similarly impossible to share it across the Internet: the Hayes Smartmodem, released in 1981, had a speed of 300 bits/s โ about 400 hours to upload one song ย ย
- 5. ...and then... ๎ Moore's Law ๎ MP3 developed in early 1990s, just as Internet was taking off ๎ used computation to reduce music file size to 10% of original ๎ modem speed then 14.4 Kbit/s โ less than one hour to upload/download one MP3 song: slow, but possible ๎ Napster (1999) ย ย
- 6. today ๎ Mbit/s broadband connection mean that entire films can now be shared ๎ P2P networks like BitTorrent make it even easier to distribute those files and share them in the background ๎ 1 terabyte hard disc (1000 gigabytes) costs ยฃ/โฌ/$50; stores 150,000 MP3s ย ย
- 7. tomorrow ๎ a 1 petabyte (1000 terabytes) USB stick will cost ยฃ/โฌ/$50 and store every song ever recorded in CD quality (no compression) ๎ a 1 exabyte hard disc (1000 petabytes) will cost ยฃ/โฌ/$50 and store every film ever recorded ๎ ultimately be able to share *everything* as easily as sharing one MP3 file in 1995 ๎ then what? ย ย
- 8. war on digital sharing ๎ is unwinnable ๎ Moore's Law ๎ is war on abundance ๎ artificial scarcity ๎ is a war on humanity ๎ most people can't access most knowledge ๎ is a war on the future ๎ a few of those people are the ones who will save us ย ย
- 9. castles in the air ๎ those who talk of "IP" compare copyright infringement with trespass ๎ in 20th century, law on trespass radically reshaped by new technology ๎ limited by taking away airspace rights ย ย
- 10. taking flight ๎ we need to allow knowledge to pass freely through the digital space "above" analogue objects ๎ no digital copyright ๎ logically inevitable ๎ morally necessary ๎ economically sensible ย ย
- 11. what's not to like? glyn.moody@gmail.com @glynmoody on Twitter/identi.ca opendotdotdot.blogspot.com ย ย