one hundred and fifty thousand people went last year in Germany against the EU copyright law reform to the streets, to overturn the Reform, in particular to prevent so-called upload filter and in order to defend a cultural practice of life, the Remix-culture in the network, unlimited and unpaid. At first, this sounds harmless and legitimate, but here’s the core of the problem is buried: The Generation of “Digital Natives”, the Bitkom industry Association and the digital American monopolies, headed by Google and Facebook, have formulated a common interest and campaign of detention propagated: Save your Internet as you know it.
The Public has changed since the digital Revolution, solid. The video “the destruction of The CDU” and “the destruction of The press” by Youtuber Rezo, with the Henri-Nannen prize and the Grimme-honored price that have made to the wider Public of the network stars known. Reason enough for the pirates – and network-Community arguments and look more closely at your core to be disclosed.
fighting The Internet community (supposedly) for a modern copyright law, what it means for you, to support the interests of the Users, the so-called “prosumers” who want to guide their practice of sharing and editing in the network without any restrictions. It is not a question but to Share, because Sharing means to abandon yourself to something, because giving it to the other, or makes available, but it comes to Copy. That’s the Problem. The digital Copy takes something away, not be involved, and the professional is a Copyright holder, and copyright. In the “Sharing Community” is shared with other users, but not with the Authors. Even Marina Weis band, Ex-pirate, defended the practice of not taking into account the interests of the Creators as a new Way of Life in the network culture.
monopoly culture the digital culture of capitalism
Sascha Lobo, Leonhard Dobusch, Markus Beckedahl, “netzpolitik.org” and the other, the generation of card play. Those who advocate for copyright reform, did not understand the network. But it may not be exactly Vice-versa?
in a monopoly culture the digital culture of capitalism developed Twenty years after the Access Provider were cleared of liability in the European Union by the E-Commerce Directive, in the United States by the Safe Harbor principle, has. The Problem with this monopolization makes the network community in the name of your own unbegrenz idea of Freedom more disappear behind the framed the fight against the upload filter.
power politicians in the European Parliament against the data protection reform, because they saw it as a restriction of the freedom of the network. They were against the Directive on audiovisual media services, defined, what active platforms are in contrast to pure Access providers, and this responsibility is increasing. This network of politicians to serve not only the interests of the users, but also the interests of the monopolies to non-regulation.