Sunday, November 2, 2008
Something New Destroying Something Old
I really liked the first article by Lessig that we read as an introduction to the topic of intellectual privacy. In Lessig #1, the author makes a statement to sum up his article and propose an idea. Lessig says that "while the Internet has indeed produced something fantastic and new, our government, pushed by big media to respond to this 'something new,' is destroying something very old." I interpreted this "something fantastic and new" to be the new innovations and ways of communication allowed for by the development of the internet, and this "something very old" to be the law and the Constitution established when our country was first founded. This phrase has a lot of truth and depth to it. It is very true that the internet is something fantastic and new. It has made waves in the way we communicate, research, share ideas, respond to others, and much more. It has changed the way we can view the world and has made many resources available to us at the tip of our fingertips. The Internet is a remarkable thing and should not be overlooked. Yet with all these pros comes a major con. Our privacy is definitely compromised with the Internet and the access to resources we have at hand. It is destroying something very old because our privacy laws written in the Constitution are violated. Unfortunately, we cannot figure out how to regulate the Internet or how much restriction we should put on it, because the laws we abide by were written many years ago and do not apply to modern day as well. The writers of the Constitution could not have dreamed of the technology we have and therefore have no input into how we can regulate it. So, what is the answer? Perhaps the best way for us to deal with this idea is to abide by the Constitution as best we can, and take the rest case by case. We must come up with a way to regulate privacy and allow for the sharing of ideas in a way that doesn't take away from the fundamental laws that we set long ago. This is not an easy task at hand. Lessig discusses various ideas and probable situations; they just must be put into action.
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I agree with Sasha said "something fantastic and new" to be the new innovation and ways of communication like Internet. The Internet is one of the main effects on intellectual property and privacy. In addition, the other technologies like electronic devices and machines also contribute as the effects on these things. I really see that the Internet has set the stage for the erasure of free culture and pushed by big media companies. As Lessig said, for the first time in our tradition, the ordinary ways in which individuals create and share culture fall within reach of the regulation of the law. The Internet facilitates easy way to widespread, writing thing information or ideas of somebody. This does not seem respect to the traditional lines of copyright or as Sasha said about "something very old" as the law in constitution. The battles over copyright and the Internet seem remote to most. The Internet should induced an unrecognized change in the process of regulation of law right now so that we do not seem the technology always influence our privacy and rights in the future.
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