So far, you can tell your personal story on MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites. The only controls are those of the marketplace. There’s talk of protecting people from predators and terrorists, but, for now, it’s the Wild West.
But, “copyrighted” content is another matter. Several companies have set up software to screen movies, tv shows, etc. from MySpace and other social networking sites. http://www.dailyherald.com/business/story.asp?id=294752. But, at least The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg http://www.dailyherald.com/business/story.asp?id=294757 is doing his journalistic best to tell the story and advocate steps to take to achieve a workable solution.
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That Daily Herald article pretty much said what we've said in class, only more succinctly. The last point, however, brings up another issue. The author said, "If you don’t like all of the restrictions on the use of digital content, the solution isn’t to steal the stuff"; unfortunately, in this culture of instant gratification, the solution proposed ("pressure Congress to pass a new copyright law") is never going to win people over--especially not younger people with little to no sense of civic duty or responsibility. It's hard to feel that kind of duty toward an organization that is presently upholding the persecution of what the article calls (and what most people feel to be) fair use.
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