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Well, lately has been much talk about secret negotiations on information technology and copyright, called ACT, which could change forever the freedom that has prevailed in the network so far. Today, Freddy did me the favor of sending this article Millennium, which I found very interesting. I am available to take a look: _______________________________

The Internet as we know it in Mexico will end soon. Or at least I want to say some transnational affected by the free exchange content. And for that are using the copyright laws of the countries, same as used to criminalize those who download or upload songs to the web without paying, as in fact happened in the U.S., where a couple of weeks a single mother sentenced to pay almost two million dollars for 24 songs off of Kazaa, the popular software is one of the putative children Napster.

Spain is the laboratory where they are already implementing these policies and their implementation is reaching a level less than absurd. The companies argue that music and other content are exchanged on the network owner and, to that owner must pay a wool each time you download or copy a file that is called digital canon. To protect these rights there is a body called Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) has become public enemy number one of internet users and owners of bars and restaurants.

SGAE turns out that the payment protection of rights to their owners (who are mostly large companies) and for the last few weeks has launched a campaign to collect it. So, is made known to the owners of bars, for example, must pay a fee for each song rights has been played in its establishment, alleging that have attracted customers to touch and have won silver. If this is added the difficulty that the music is not from an album, but a digital file which can not prove the legitimate property, it gets worse.

SGAE has already brought thousands of requirements to establishments informing them that are required to pay amounts in thousands of euros for all the music that has Copyright Copyright or have already touched. Sure, the gentlemen are wise men because so far have failed to explain how they did for the amount of times you played a song in place and what that music does have rights and what not.

response, today there is real Rise of the owners of bars, restaurants, cafes and other establishments, which have been forced to not even put the radio or television, because if any video dime they spend or give rise to rights, they are charged to the establishment. So they have chosen tune just by news channels or play music so old that no one claiming a payment.

So far from benefiting to the artists to give them a share of sums, they're hurting because fewer and fewer places to play their music well-founded fear that they require payment SGAE, incidentally, is not optional or be appealed.

At the same time, the government of Spain, headed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (formerly leftist, but in recent weeks has turned from right), promotes the Law of Sustainable Economy, in which it proposes to sanction the closure, the Internet service providers, web allowing illegal music downloads, videos and movies. That is, the pages or blogs where they can download copyrighted content without paying for it. This is defended on the grounds that only then can the combat Internet piracy, as users have become accustomed to not paying for content and that the industry will mean a death sentence. Whereas, only music, the year past sales fell 17 percent in that country, resulting in losses of almost 40 million euros over 2008, according to a report of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Policies
how are you are driving the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA, for its acronym in English) whose most recent meeting took place in Guadalajara last week. At one time it said that what was agreed there would violate the laws of our country, given that laws such as these must be approved by the Senate, and even some optimists were hard to implement similar measures here in Mexico because there is not even a Internet law, the fact is that, if companies want, you can apply now. Why?, Because in this country and is a Copyright Act and would be sufficient for the protection claimed for the authorities from removing the tusks and hurled against those delincuentazos that we are all descended music, videos or movies from the Internet without paying.

The mechanism would be the same used against sellers of pirated goods in market stalls, the owner of rights complaint and the PGR operates. What is unclear is whether fines apply if, as in Spain, close down businesses that provide Internet to sites that pirate music up for free download.

I, as said Vinton Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet when he received the Principe de Asturias prize, I think those restrictions are meaningless, because the network is a way to reach thousands, millions of people who would otherwise not have access to our creations. Radiohead has already clarified that the artist of what really lives is touring, and that buying them means discs only a small portion of profits. Instead, companies depend on selling discs face increasing costs them less to produce, but without which the music industry would not be what it is. So why pay or not pay? that is the question (I hope paraphrase Shakespeare does not generate rights.) The debate is open in Mexico and you better make it public before the transnational surprise us, with other measures that also raises the ACT, as hacking our machines and delete all files that have not paid. ;

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