Chris T's Notes from Class:
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.
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.
Chris T's Notes from Class:
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.
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.