Praying they will not touch me

This text is an article published in El Diario de Navarra and can be read in pdf here

Thousands of Internet users from their PCs billion launched attacks on the websites of the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), the Ministry of Culture and employers Promusicae label, getting that were inoperative for hours. This attack, say the group of surfers that caused "Anonymous" was a protest against digital canon law known as the Sinde, who haunt the pages of downloads of copyrighted material copyrighted. It is not first time it happens, but before the media did not echo the news in order not to encourage more Internet aunirse aThis group onduct or similar actions.

The debate has not been expected among those who are accused of cyber-vandalism and those who defend it as a simple and legitimate form of protest. The truth is that the media coverage has caused has been far greater than any protest alus. One of the characteristics of the Internet is that information flows with speed and control over it is very difficult to maintain. Freedom of speech prevailing in the network whenever the contents of an opinion does not constitute a crime, therefore acts protest, under this view, should be legal.

Many surfers use the Internet to openly express their views on government and public and private entities, and more with the proliferation of social networks, where the city operates its real power. In fact, not making too many dates, a large firm U.S. clothing was obliged not to change your company logo for the many fans voiced their protests through Facebook, emails and Twitter.

But the fact of expressing an opinion on the net about an entity is very different to block a site because I do not like the content, or what it represents, the limit is clear and obvious. The living websites and some advertising media should ask themselves if they are to accommodate this kind of news or not, what if tomorrow a view expressed in a newspaper Web usta nog and Aldi this group following this page is blocked by a denial of service, known as "two."

Loveríamos as cyber-vandalism "or as a legitimate form of protest?

SGAE arouses antipathy of many groups and particularly among Internet users, and opinions about their actions seem legitimate to me and falls within freedom of expression that characterizes the network. But it is aggressive, illegal and intellectually weak, express an opinion blocking a website, using aggressive tools anonymously, without showing their faces, and in classifying this as a new similar protest demonstrations in foot street, "making use of freedom of expression" is simply nonsense.

We are in a dead spot, which until it enters into force the new criminal code these acts do not constitute a crime, and therefore the courts autoridadescomolos can not do much about it. And while we wait for that may be punishable by law, content providers are vulnerable and we can only give our opinion on it, praying that I do not touch me.

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