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So that’s what a digital revolt looks like. A million-and-a-half emails and almost 90,000 phone calls to US Congress. Public com
So that’s what a digital revolt looks like. A million-and-a-half emails and almost 90,000 phone calls to US Congress. Public com
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So that’s what a digital revolt looks like. A million-and-a-half emails and almost 90,000 phone calls to US Congress. Public complaints from Google and Facebook. Even a few thousand old-fashioned letters to the US House of Representatives. This internet anger, marshalled under the banner of American Censorship Day on 16 November, came in opposition to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA), legislation aimed at tackling the online trade in copyrighted movies and music. Claims that the act, if passed, will "break the internet" helped persuade several big companies, including a trade group which represents Apple and Microsoft, to withdraw their support. Then, last week, SOPA’s backers in the House said they were open to changing the bill. Internet Activists 1, Big Media 0.
But elsewhere the media barons appear to be winning. Over the past few years, several countries have debated or enacted laws that, in the name of tackling piracy, have handed more power to
large companies
. In the process, say activists, the movie and music industries have gained the ability to censor websites. The recent revolt was louder because SOPA is one of the more radical new proposals. It would give copyright holders the legal right to have sites which they deem to be peddling stolen content shut down, a controversial power the European Court of Justice has just ruled against. Concern here is less a-bout obvious piracy, which gets limited sympathy from activists, and more about sites on which copyrighted content is used in creative ways. The bill also gives copyright holders the right to force search engines to block infringing sites from search results. Google and others know that it is often impossible to determine whether a site is engaging in piracy or creative reuse or some combination of the two. That’s one reason why the search engine teamed up with Facebook and other sites to run a full-page advert opposing the bill in The New York Times.
Other moves by copyright advocates have been less crude and more successful. This July, five big US internet service providers committed to repeatedly caution -and then potentially disconnect—subscribers who share copyrighted material. The measure had limited opposition, but some activists warn that it is not sufficiently overseen. That’s a fear shared across the Atlantic, where British activists have warned that any proposals to speed up processing of industry requests will erode courts’ ability to assess claims of copyright breaches. In Ireland, judges have already been sidelined. After a legal battle in 2009 with a recording industry group, eircom, the country’s largest ISP said it would no longer contest blocking requests from the group. None have yet been submitted.
There is a lot of copyright theft online, and content creators have a right to demand protection. Yet the reusers of content, from music remixers to bloggers, are also creators. Striking a balance between the two will prove important if politicians want to stop the angry emails.
The author cites Ireland as an example to demonstrate that______.
选项
A、the judging power of court has been largely curbed
B、the actions of media industry lack effective supervision
C、copyright advocates successfully stopped copyright breaches
D、ISP has reached an agreement with media industry
答案
B
解析
第三段第三句指出,网络激进分子质疑版权倡导者的行为没有受到有效监督,然后以英国和爱尔兰为例,证明这种缺乏监督的情况确实广泛存在。作者指出,爱尔兰的法官们已经被排挤出核心之外。由于2009年在与媒体公司的法律博弈中失败,导致该国最大的网络服务商不敢再反对媒体公司的屏蔽请求,也未向法院提交过任何侵权诉讼。爱尔兰的例子证明,媒体公司权力过大,将法官们排挤出核心之外,致使其行为缺乏有限监管。[B]选项正确。
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