Piracy as a wake-up call

By Mathias Klang, March 9, 2010 8:18 pm

Genom Farmor Gun och Mattias Bjärnemalm kommer den här klippet där Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Telecoms and Media, håller Ludwig Erhard Lecture 2009 i Bryssel.

Här är texten från klippet

It is necessary to penalise those who are breaking the law. But are there really enough attractive and consumer-friendly legal offers on the market? Does our present legal system for Intellectual Property Rights really live up to the expectations of the internet generation? Have we considered all alternative options to repression? Have we really looked at the issue through the eyes of a 16-year-old? Or only from the perspective of law professors who grew up in the Gutenberg Age? In my view, growing internet piracy is a vote of no-confidence in existing business models and legal solutions. It should be a wake-up call for policy-makers.

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