Pentru ca mi-am dorit intotdeauna sa pun pe hartie astfel de cuvinte, pentru ca este exact lucrul pe care il cred si eu despre tehnologie, drepturi si internet, astazi scriu putin si citez mult. Il citez pe Lawrence Lessig, unul dintre profesorii de drept (cu specializare new media) cei mai respectati din lume. Citatele sunt din prezentarea pe care el a facut-o in cadrul unui eveniment TED.

Finalul e tocmai ideea pe care daca n-o intelegem repede, am putea rata generatii intregi de oameni incercand sa le bagam in cap reguli pe care nu doar ca nu le inteleg, dar nici macar nu le vor intelege vreodata petnru simplul motiv ca nu au nicio legatura cu fiinta lor.

“We need to recognize you can’t kill the instinct the technology produces; we can only criminalize it. We can’t stop our kids from using it; we can only drive it underground. We can’t make our kids passive again; we can only make them, quote, “pirates.” And is that good?

We live in this weird time, it’s kind of age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law, and that’s what I — we — are doing to our kids. They live life knowing they live it against the law.

That realization is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corrupting. And in a democracy we ought to be able to do better. Do better, at least for them, if not for opening for business”