Chapter 3 from Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture mainly talked about a case of Jesse Jordan, who was sued by RIAA because of the Copyright law. RIAA charge a large amount of money form Jesse, because they thought Jesse broke the Copyright law.
Jesse built a search engine himself and shared data with other students and faculties of the RPI community. The files Jesse had for sharing were photos, copies of research and other things the users of RPI made available in a public folder of their computer. In other words, what Jesse had done was fixed a bug of Windows file sharing program and use the pre-existed searching engine for file sharing on campus. So in my opinion, this is not something can be considered as breaking the Copyright law and it was insane to charge Jesse that large amount of money.
As we can see, the resources of Jesse’s search engine were from other people’s public files and they have to made these things available or other people of the community may not be able to access these files. So, at this point, it means that the owner of the files had already agreed to share with other members. This was all about providing and sharing resources. The most ironic thing was that the two out of three students who against Jesse were from other universities. So from my perspective, this case was totally unfair for Jesse.
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