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Dieses vegetarische Brathähnchenimitat finde ich ja albern, aber ansonsten: Daumen hoch!
Manchmal überrasche ich mich selbst. Zum Beispiel mit meiner Begeisterung für Foursquare. Foursquare ist so ziemlich das nützlichste Netzwerk der Welt und ich fordere hiermit alle meine FreundInnen auf Mitglied zu werden. Und zwar umgehend!
Ein praktisches Beispiel. In unserer Kita hängt ein Zettel, auf dem sind in einer Spalte die umliegenden Spielplätze vermerkt. In einer weiteren Spalte sind die Wochentage zu finden. Die erste Mutter, die ihr Kind abholt und noch auf einen Spielplatz geht, nimmt zwei Klammern und markiert a) den Spielplatz und b) den Wochentag. Die zweite Mutter, die ihr Kind abholt und auf einen Spielplatz möchte, schaut auf den Zettel und schließt sich der ersten Mutter an. So weit die geniale Theorie.
Praktisch klappt das nicht. Die erste Mutter vergisst traditionell die Klammern zu setzen. Es kommt eine zweite, die daran denkt, geht zu einem anderen Spielplatz, vergisst aber den Tag umzustellen. Die dritte schaut auf die Liste und sieht dass der Tag falsch markiert ist, stellt ihn ein und geht auf einen dritten Spielplatz. Oder die Klammern fehlen. Oder das große Telefonieren geht los. Wer geht noch auf den Spielplatz? Wer ist wann fertig? Mit Foursquare wäre das so einfach! Die Erste checkt am entsprechenden Spielplatz ein, alle anderen wissen Bescheid. Fertich!
Ein weiteres Beispiel für eine super Nutzung. Ich muss zum Zahnarzt. Auf dem Weg dorthin komme ich an einem Restaurant vorbei, das ich schon lange mal ausprobieren wollte. Wenn ich normalerweise darüber nachdenke, wo man hingehen könnte, fällt mir vor Schreck meistens nichts ein. Mit foursquare packe ich den Ort auf meine To-Do-Liste und finde ihn bei Bedarf problemlos wieder.
Die allerallerbeste Nutzung ist aber die eingebaute Ehemannerinnerungsfunktion. Sie basiert auf der Standardfunktion, dass Tipps, die Freunde an Orten hinterlassen aufpoppen, wenn man sich räumlich in der Nähe befindet.
Um die Möglichkeiten dieser Funktion voll auszuschöpfen, muss man die Wege des Ehepartners eine Weile überwachen und notieren. Wenn man zentrale Punkte ausmachen konnte, hinterlässt man an den entsprechenden Orten hilfreiche Tipps. Sie poppen einfach hoch, wenn der Mann sich in der Nähe befindet. Man ist dabei nicht mal daran gebunden, einen sinnigen Tipp zu dem entsprechenden Ort zu hinterlassen.
Im Fitnessstudio, in dem der Mann sich gerne ertüchtigt, stellt man beispielsweise ein: “Nach dem Trainieren einmal Softeis mit extra viel Schokosoße mitbringen” oder in der Lieblingskneipe, die gleich neben dem Supermarkt ist: “Meistens ist das Bio-Gemüse im Angebot, bitte übliches Sortiment mitbringen.” Foursquare bietet sogar an, das To Do nach Abarbeitung als erledigt zu markieren. Wundervoll!
Gerade für Berlin ist das absolut genial – haben doch die meisten Läden bis 22 oder sogar 24 Uhr geöffnet. Ich habe auch andere, wichtige Informationen über Berlin gestreut: “Denk an unseren Hochzeitstag!” (Alexanderplatz) oder “Blumen bereiten eigentlich immer eine Freude” (Straße in der mein Mann meistens parkt).
Ganz ehrlich: Ich liebe Foursquare. Echt jetzt!
21 februari 2012
Some Arguments Against ACTA
Postat i: ACTA,English,informationspolitik — Christian Engström @ 16:03
Tags: acta, european parliament, pirate partyIt is true that some claims made by some opponents to ACTA have been exaggerated, which is perhaps natural, but is still unfortunate. There is no need to paint ACTA as being worse than it actually is. There are enough things about ACTA to raise concern anyway.
Here are some of them:
“ACTA changes nothing, but is crucial” makes no sense
This is the main argument of the proponents of ACTA. In the US they say that ACTA will change no US laws, and in the EU they say that it will not change any EU laws. Yet, they say that signing ACTA is crucial. They have spent four years negotiating ACTA behind closed doors, and have used every trick in the book to keep both civil society and elected parliamentarians from being able to influence the outcome. But now that they are ready, they claim that what they have achieved is an agreement that changes nothing, but which must be signed anyway. This makes no sense.If it were true that ACTA changes nothing, this would in itself be a sufficient argument to reject the treaty outright. Why bother pushing it through, despite all the public opposition, if it achieves nothing? The very least we can demand to even consider giving consent to the agreement is that its proponents come clear and explain what things they think it will change (for the better, in their opinion). Because of course ACTA will change things.
ACTA ties the hands of the parliaments
Copyright and copyright enforcement are hot political issues that are coming under increasing debate, both in the EU and on the national level. The Commission has already announced a number of upcoming dossiers, including an evaluation and revision of the Intellectual Property Rights Directive IPRED later this year.Even if ACTA were to change nothing in the existing legislation, it still ties the hands of the European Parliament so that any future changes to copyright enforcement legislation can go in one direction only, regardless of whether the evaluation of the current policies would show that they are not working, and we need to find a better way. The national parliaments in the member states will be restricted in the same way by ACTA.
Considering how controversial the copyright policy area is, and contrasting this with the lack of transparency and parliamentary consultation that has surrounded the ACTA negotiations from the start, allowing ACTA to tie the hands of elected parliaments in this manner is not acceptable.
ACTA is useless against counterfeiting
China, Russia, India, and Brazil are the biggest manufacturers of counterfeit goods in the world. None of them are parties to ACTA, and they have all publicly declared that they never will be, since they consider ACTA too extreme.Even the Pirate Party agrees that commercial goods counterfeiting is a bad thing, and that we should combat it. The idea to have an international agreement on goods counterfeiting with the BRIC countries makes sense. The idea to have one without them does not.
The ACTA agreement may well turn out to be harmful to the legitimate fight against counterfeit goods in the market, if it blocks the possibility of reaching an more limited agreement on only goods counterfeiting with the BRIC countries.
ACTA is another brick in the wall
When considering what ACTA might or might not mean, it is important to remember that ACTA did not suddenly appear out of the blue in a political vacuum. For the last 15 or 20 years we have seen a number of initiatives related to copyright enforcement: WCT, DMCA, EUCD, IPRED, the Data Retention Directive, Hadopi, the Digital Economy Act, SOPA, PIPA, and now ACTA. They have all gone in one direction only: expanded rights for copyright holders and stricter enforcement.It is true that we can debate how big or small a step ACTA is, but that it is yet another step in the same direction is irrefutable. If it goes through, the copyright lobby will exert all its power to have every ambiguity in it interpreted to their advantage, just as they have with every previous new law or agreement in this area. This is something we need to keep in mind when discussing how to interpret various details in the treaty.
Shutting people off the Internet
It is true that ACTA does not directly demand that internet service providers should take action against accused file sharers.Instead, ACTA talks about promoting “cooperation” between internet service providers and rights holders. In an earlier draft there was a footnote saying that “three-strikes” was an example such cooperation, but when the draft leaked and there were public protests, the explanatory footnote was removed. The agreement text still talks about its desire to promote cooperation between internet service providers and rights holders, though, and no suggestion has been made as to what it might mean if not “three-strikes”.
The language of this provision in ACTA has been made less clear, but it still encourages the idea of shutting people off the Internet.
Damages based on retail value
Article 9.1 of ACTA says that damages should be measured by the suggested retail price. This may perhaps sound harmless, but it can lead to completely absurd consequences.A two-terabyte hard disk can hold about half a million songs. Calculated at the market price of one euro per song, the damages for having a 2 TB disk full of music would be half a million euro. This is in no way an extreme example, it is something that a lot of teenagers have. You can argue that they shouldn’t, or you can wonder why, but this does not change the fact that a lot of teenagers do. According to ACTA, their family could risk having to pay half a million euro in damages.
There have been a number of cases in the US where file sharers have been ordered by the courts to pay astronomical damages, but this is not something we should import to Europe.
Access to medicines
The issue of ACTA’s impact on access to medicines in third world countries is very complex, and I am not an expert on it. All I know is that organizations like Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières, who deal with this issue in practice, are concerned that ACTA will harm access to legal generic drugs in poor countries.We know that there have been problems with perfectly legal shipments of generic drugs being seized and destroyed by customs already under present rules, and if Oxfam and MSF say that ACTA could make matters worse, that’s good (bad) enough for me.
Compatibility with EU fundamental rights
Is ACTA compatible with fundamental rights in Europe? Different legal experts seem to give different answers.The legal opinion that JURI got from the Parliament’s legal service said, in very guarded language that “It appears that the Agreement per se does not impose any obligation on the Union that is manifestly incompatible with fundamental rights.” (emphasis added)
The Assessment of ACTA for the INTA Committee in June 2011 seemed to be of the opposite opinion and said that “unconditional consent would be an inappropriate response from the European Parliament given the issues that have been identified with ACTA at it stands.”
The Study on ACTA and fundamental rights by Professor Douwe Korff (London) and Professor Ian Brown (Oxford) list a number of concerns with ACTA, including some mentioned above, and concludes that “This makes the entire Agreement, in our opinion, incompatible with fundamental European human rights instruments and -standards.”
In the absence of an autoritative ruling by the European Court of Justice, all we can say is that at best, ACTA is a borderline case.
Fundamental rights in third countries
It is possible that the European Court of Justice could provide guidance on how to implement ACTA to get it within European fundamental rights, but that leaves the question of what will happen in other countries when ACTA is implemented there. In an number of places in ACTA it says that this or that provision does not have to be implemented if it contradicts legislation on fundamental rights.In countries outside the EU, which do not have the European fundamental rights as part of the constitution, there is a big risk that ACTA’s provisions will be implemented in a way that would infringe fundamental rights as defined in Europe. If this is the case, for the EU to ratify ACTA would be in breach of the obligation in the Treaties to promote the spread of fundamental rights in the rest of the world.
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More on the subject: EDRI – What’s Wrong With ACTA
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“It is true that some claims made by some opponents to ACTA have been exaggerated”
Both sides exaggerates, the question is witch side that does it most…
Kommentar av pontus — 21 februari 2012 @ 16:46
So, the correct spin on “ACTA changes nothing” isn’t “that’s not true”. The correct spin is. “that’s not good enough”
Kommentar av Johan Tjäder — 21 februari 2012 @ 16:57
Reblogged this on open source thinking and commented:
in the scope!
En idé. Kan inte Piratpartiet, tillsammans med andra partier i EU-parlamentet, göra ett eget Anti-ACTA-avtal? Jag kan tänka mig länder som Polen bland andra som villiga att signera det. Det vore en väldigt kul idé och det skulle ge det hela en intressant PR-spinn på det hela (dvs mycket uppmärksamhet i media). För det första gäller det att hitta ett bra namn på det sådant Anti-ACTA avtal, och sedan fylla det med innehåll som nationella parlament älskar. T ex, “vi förbinder oss att inte signera något internationellt avtal som avser reglera Internet. Allt sådan ska regleras nationellt och nationella parlament efter en nationell debatt. Vidare så håller vi personliga integriteten, rätten till privat kommunikation, som högre mål än kommersiella särintressen” o.s.v. Det skulle nästan räcka med att ett land signerar ett sådant avtal för att man skulle få en ganska stor uppmärksamhet i media. Det skulle öppna för att fler länder signerar, och det skulle vara ett mycket effektivt sätt att stoppa denna regleringsiver från USA och upphovsindustrin. Vad sägs?
Kommentar av Datavetaren — 21 februari 2012 @ 22:13
According to German media (e.g. ARD: http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/acta122.html) has the German government no intent to sign the ACTA agreement. The linked article also state that Poland, Czech Republic and Latvia are unlikely to sign.
What bearing does that have on the overall situation? Can one or more countries not signing derail the project?
Keep up the good work, Christian!
Kommentar av Kung CG — 22 februari 2012 @ 9:05
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