The Moscow News bericht: "There's a Chinese proverb, widely attributed to Confucius, which says "Don't use a cannon to kill a mosquito." The meaning is simple: use the right tools for the job. Don't go overboard, or else you'll be ineffective. It may be that members of the Russian State Duma have never read Confucius, because using cannons to kill mosquitoes is just the technique the Russian parliament is proposing to combat Internet piracy. On Friday, the Duma fast-tracked approval for a bill intended to crack down on illegal online distribution of copyrighted content in Russia. The law would impose a legal mechanism to pre-block websites suspected of hosting illegal copies of copyrighted material until the case can be reviewed in court.
[...] Instead of targeting individual pirates, intellectual property experts say that the industry should be more creative in finding ways to battle online piracy. "Look at ten years ago, when Apple revolutionized the media market with a completely new business model [pay-per-song]," Severin de Wit, a lawyer with the international Intellectual Property Expert Group, told The Moscow News. "It shook the industry to think more out-of-the-box, to come up with a basic model whereby people can buy material for reasonable prices online."
According to de Wit, people should be educated that paying for content is better than stealing it, and developing a legal online micro-payment system would be a good first step in promoting that perspective."
Lees hier meer.
