Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s<br />
ternet Law, reveals that, in October 2002, there were approximately 400 definite<br />
legal sentences involving virtual problems. In this month [October, 2008], they<br />
already amount to 17 thousand, counted since 2002. The exponential increase<br />
of suits follows the crescent number of users and already began causing changes<br />
of behavior in sites, companies, schools and even families.” (Diniz, 2008)<br />
Thus, all pressure of the legal institutions and of the so-called justice operators<br />
is now for the elimination of anonymity in network communications. Encouraging<br />
such action are the big clients of law firms, i.e., the copyright industry — once these<br />
companies consider punishing individuals who share music and videos without paying<br />
royalties essential. Their main spokespersons claim to be losing billions of Dollars,<br />
mainly after the expansion of digital communication, which facilitates its copy<br />
and illegal distribution.<br />
In the 2010 report of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, IIPA, one<br />
can observe the view the copyright industry representatives defend of communication<br />
in digital networks:<br />
“‘Piracy’, as we know it nowa<strong>da</strong>ys, occurs in an increasingly sophisticated<br />
manner, using or supplying to the users materials under copyrights protection<br />
without authorization, instead of simply copying and selling contents in<br />
physical media in the retail stores or on the streets. (…) Such piracy is made<br />
in innumerous manners, from the P2P sharing of files, deeplinking sites,<br />
BitTorrent sharing, cyberlockers, discussion forums in the web, and other<br />
similar services.”<br />
Page 13 of the same report makes clear the recurring speech in the copyright<br />
industry that seeks to make file sharing responsible for the drop in the revenue of<br />
sales of music and other intangible assets:<br />
“In Spain, with one of the most elevated illegal file sharing rates in Europe, the<br />
sales of the 50 most popular local artists are estimated to have dropped 65%,<br />
from 2004 to 2009. In France, where one fourth of the Internet downloads is<br />
illegal, the albums of the local artists had a drop in sales of 60%, from 2003 to<br />
2009. The situation in Brazil, a culturally rich country, is similar.”<br />
One of the most important solutions given by representatives of the copyright<br />
industry is the repression and blocking of digital file sharing. For such, they seek<br />
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