operação pirata

Do Remixtures: Depois da Antígua, o Brasil poderá ser o próximo país a pedir autorização à Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) para violar as patentes e os direitos de autor pertencentes a companhias sediadas nos Estados Unidos. De acordo com a Reuters, a pretensão do governo brasileiro baseia-se numa disputa relacionada com os subsídios concedidos por Washington aos produtores de algodão.

Para conceder liberdade provisória a três jovens detidos sob a acusação de praticar crimes pela internet, um juiz federal do Rio Grande do Norte determinou uma condição inédita: que os rapazes leiam e resumam, a cada três meses, dois clássicos da literatura.

As primeiras obras escolhidas pelo juiz Mário Jambo, 49, foram "A hora e a vez de Augusto Matraga", conto de Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), e "Vidas Secas", de Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953).

Gostei da idéia. Nada melhor para um proto pirata cibernético do que a leitura e análise de um hacker da literatura como Guimarães Rosa.... valeu, seu juiz.

The Economist: SOMETIMES the biggest changes in society are the hardest to spot precisely because they are hiding in plain sight. It could well be that way with wireless communications. Something that people think of as just another technology is beginning to show signs of changing lives, culture, politics, cities, jobs, even marriages dramatically. In particular, it will usher in a new version of a very old idea: nomadism.

I use the term Punk Capitalism to describe the new set of market conditions governing society. It’s a society where piracy, as the cochair at Disney recently put it, is “just another business model.” A society where the remix is changing the way production and consumption are structured, rendering the nineteenth-century copyright laws we use obsolete. A world where advertising no longer works quite the way it did. It’s a place where open-source ways of working are generating a wealth of new public goods, niche markets, knowledge, and resources — free tools for the rest of us to build both commercial and noncommercial ventures. It’s a place where creativity is our most valuable resource. It’s a marketplace where things we used to pay for are free, and things that used to be free have to be paid for. It’s a world where altruism is as powerful as competition, inhabited by a new breed of social entrepreneurs, a creative resistance who make money by putting as much emphasis on truly making a difference as they do on turning a profit.
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Matt Mason
The Pirate`s Dilemma