Stealing is stealing
Un éditorial bien réactionnaire du Globe and Mail…
[…] Mr. Al-Khabaz insists he was concerned about the safety of Dawson’s data and points out that he never tried to hide when confronted and never tried to steal any data. Dawson insists that the 20-year-old student continued his hacking in spite of warning him not to, and that it has a duty to uphold its rules. Dawson’s officials are right: Rules exist for a reason, and students cannot expect to break them without consequence. Why have them, otherwise?
The international hacking community is currently up in arms after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an Internet pioneer who fought for the release of data on the Internet that he considered to be public. Swartz, who had a history of depression, was facing a slew of charges for allegedly downloading publicly funded academic journals from a large database that charged a fee for access. His family and supporters blame overzealous prosecutors for his death; the prosecutors insist – again, quite rightly – that “stealing is stealing.”
In the age of the Internet, the massive downloading for free of music and movies and other copyrighted material has muddied the waters for many people. They seem to have forgotten that privacy rights and copyright laws are among the foundations of our economy. These are things that are not to be shoved aside by the absolutism of Internet activism.
Globe and Mail: “When did it become wrong to punish hackers?”
Pendant ce temps, la voleuse Margaret Wente est toujours employée par le Globe and Mail. “Stealing is stealing…” Sa dernière chronique explique que les politiques contre le réchauffement climatique font autant de mal que le réchauffement climatique. Nous supposerons que le vénérable quotidien a besoin de faire de la page vue ces temps-ci…
Blah ? Touitter !