On February 18, 2015, a court ordered the raid as requisitioning computers of the weekly El Eco de Cologne, based on a complaint for violation of copyright made by the Anti-Piracy Software Association. This procedure was carried out a few days before a conciliation between the parties, set for early March.
This measure, which involved serious injury to press freedom and the right to work (to jeopardize the output of the weekly), under an assumed economic damage to two or three multinational software is arbitrary, unnecessary and disproportionate.
This situation, which is also has occurred in other media departments of Colonia, Artigas and Cerro Largo, bare a fundamental problem, which is the use of proprietary software by large sectors of the population and the application of a law on anachronistic author .
proprietary software companies use a strategy of lobbying in schools so that not only people from forming in their tools but then also required in the workplace.
Meanwhile, in private orbit, had always existed permissiveness regarding the oversight of the use of proprietary software licenses, since the juiciest morsel it represented the state, license payments of hundreds of million.
The fact undertake now with a series of small media in the interior, for a foul by approximately 70% of citizenship, is a clear form of social control, in which is arbitrarily choose which media monitor.
The other part of the problem is the application of copyright law, which establishes penalties which prejudice the large majority (in this case, the average press and citizens who reads it) does not correspond to the alleged damage to the multinationals.
With under this Act, have already been given above similar situations, such as occurred in 2013 with breaking and local photocopying near the Faculty of Law. In that case, following a complaint from a publisher, thousands of students left without study materials as photocopies are the only means of access to the onerous literature required in various undergraduate programs.
A law causes these damages to citizenship, assuming damage to a few private powerful, needs to be reformed. Among other things, it is necessary to draw their processes of criminal orbit and implement exceptions for educational fields.
To attack a problem as the use of proprietary software in society, is not sufficient to test a single answer. Since the Parliament and State initiatives have been launched, but much remains to advance the matter. Act of Free Software, which drives its use in education and the state was approved in 2013.
This, plus the savings in licensing, cause the development of national capacities in the field and mitigate Gradually needs the same state imposed using proprietary software, its suppliers (including printers). Also, Antel has organized for several years the International Conferences of Free Software.
The challenges that arise in the future commit to different actors. At policy level, it is important to encourage support from the Ministry of Industry to every productive enterprise that wants to migrate to free software, tax exemptions, advice on the process, among other assistance. Should also be taken to ensure full compliance with the law of free software.
At the legislative level, it is important to promote changes in the law of copyright, to find a fairer balance between rights holders, whether software owners, publishers, etc., and those who use cultural and scientific assets.
Finally, the free software community must live up to the occasion when situations arise such as those affected the weekly, either from the dissemination of these problems, suggesting alternatives and technical assistance within the extent possible.
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