For this week we read chapter 3 from Lawrence Lessig`s book Free Culture. In this chapter he talks basically about the way that networks work in the internet and in search engines such as Google, yahoo and others. He presents the case of Jesse Jordan, who was sued by a search engine company when he was still in Universtity. As Lessig asks in his article I ask myself where`s the morality of the company who sued him? It is ridiculous to blame someone for doing something terrible when he was really talented.
Copyright has become one of the main problems for those who try to grow their knowledge and show their talent with the risk of being sued by using others ideas. It would be absurd to say that these people need to be punished by committing such "terrible" acts, but the reality is how people can explore and challenge themselves in develop their own inventions when copyrights close the doors in their faces?
Also it is pathetic and ironic how big companies are willing to ask for millions of dollars from people when at the same time they complain about how economy is going down. The truth is that company owners only cares about something, and that is money.
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