Chapter+11

Chris I's Presentation with Notes:



 The Great Firewall A reference to China' Great Wall. This firewall blocks users from being able to access certain websites, google searches, and even all blogspot sites.
 * Chris T's Notes from Class:**

The major events blocked are Tienamin Square.

France and Singapore are also pushing for measures like this in their own countries.

Should the united states have laws and regulations like this and be able to view citizens' activity online?

Youtube video: It's dark behind the great firewall of china "China says that foreign Internet companies are welcome in china but that they must obey china's internet rules..."

"The Internet is the single most important facet of china's political and social future and while the government can regulate what is posted in newspapers it cannot regulate the internet..."

"It's not google that is withdrawing from china, it's china withdrawing from the world"

Cookies A cookie is a text string stored on user's web browser that may contain names, keywords, tags. etc. and in the process they also are responsible for sending information back to the site that requires them.

These cookies can be helpful to facilitate/catalyze easier web using as passwords and other information can be obtained to streamline the sign-in process.

People initially had many concerns about cookies but as time professes further we being to see that there is often no harm that can be done to a web user who has cookies enabled.

IP mapping has benefitted all of us, as we have all setup stat counter on our blogs which use information like this track views/hits on our sites.

Copyright Laws When these laws were initially enacted someone had exclusive rights to their work for a period of only14 years before it entered the public domain.

Nowadays someone who has copyrighted their work has exclusive access to the work for the rest of their life plus a period of 75 years after they die.

Does this period of exclusive rights seem too long?

Does it hurt society if someone does not share their innovative intellectual material with others?

Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" was taken from him by Disney and made into cartoon rendition. Victor did not profit from his work therefore or at least not on the same scale as Disney did.

Home VCR's were almost made illegal because people believed that it would serve as a tool to further copyright infringement.

Jack Valenti Ex-Head of the Motion Picture Association of America

Problems with entertainment industry 1. Broadcast Flag-- Embedding logos and messages into DVD's to prohibit illegal copying of the content

2. The Analog Hole-- Filming televised content to share it later

3. Peer-to-Peer Sharing--examples are thugs like limewire

What The EFF? Stands for the Electronic Frontier Foundation

An organization that helps to promote citizens' rights as consumers and to further consumers' ability to access and share content as they see fit.