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John Perry Barlow sur le P2P

16 décembre 02 | Sans commentaires

Library Journal talks with Electronic Frontier Foundation cofounder John Perry Barlow

LJ: Speaking of that tension, what are your thoughts on peer-to-peer technology and file sharing? Will this technology ever be allowed to reach its potential?

JB: The current efforts on the part of the entertainment industry that would enable them to shut down the parts of the Internet engaged in peer-to-peer trading is adverse in so many ways, I barely know where to start. Aside from impoverishing the advancement of human thought, it could really cripple the future of the Internet in a profound way. It also promulgates this dangerous idea that if you are sharing information you are engaging in theft. When I first realized what the architecture of Napster was my first thought was not, "What a great way to spread music," it was, "This at last is the Internet!" This is how the neurology of the great mind will develop. This is the real thing, where every neuron can speak to every neuron and not be dependent on the ganglia, or, in other words, the servers.

LJ: Does copyright have a place in cyberspace? Can intellectual property be respected in cyberspace without implementing barriers, like encryption?

JB: I personally think the very term intellectual property is an oxymoron. I believe that something is property if you can take it away from me and I won't have it any more. This is not true for expression or thought. I wouldn't recommend throwing copyright out as it regards physical copies. Copyright still makes a lot of sense for books and CDs and tangible manifestations of intellectual goods. But what the content industry is trying to do in cyberspace is have not only the same protections we had for physical goods but increased protections—protections that would eliminate fair use so you can't have access to any intellectual material without paying the so-called publisher. This could not be more opposed to what cyberspace is about. Cyberspace is the ultimate great jungle of human thought. For us to fence it off would be a repudiation of everything and everyone who built it to this point.

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