Day 8: Being a Digital Citizen

Internet censorship
The government are planning to put bans on particular websites, which restricts our rights as citizens to access information and our freedom of speech.

File sharing
A brief overview of how file sharing effects the content distributor was given. With CC and the internet the ‘middle man’ is cut out of the picture. The ‘middle man’ are the Music and Film industry’s who make profit from putting copyright on creative works. File sharing is basically an issue of ownership, as the internet has taken over as the distributor of creative works.
An issue arises in that the sole purpose of the internet is to copy, so then why when it is possible, can we not download what we want, when we have paid for the internet..
The Video steal this film 2 communicated the same issue in history with the printing press. Initially the publishing houses were very angry about books being copied and freely distributed, however there was nothing that could be done to stop it and they gave up trying.
Similarly with the internet its impossible to control file sharing, once 1 copy is leaked, millions can be copied and distributed. Furthermore there is no owner/gate keeper of the internet. Creative solutions either technological or legal are going to have to be made to keep both the consumers and the content publishers happy