The title commemorate the famous saga of 4 movies by Disney, but this time is not a fiction, is reality.

It seems that the Government of the Caribbean island of Antigua decided to open a web portal to sell movies, music and software illegally downloaded.

The institutions of what was the “pirate’s land” want now to make a virtual pirate island.

According to many journalists this project is a sort of revenge against the US Authorities. Indeed in Us there’s a strict legislation against act of gambling so they blocked the access for the Us citizens to many specialistic websites of the Island. This meant the loss of million dollars for the caribbean Island. Althought the Us Authorities  tried to contrast the project with the explanation of “fight to piracy”, the project obtained the feu vert by the World Trade Organization.

The portal would like to propose a subscription for 5$US  a month  to access – without limits – to any kind of content. That would be the worst nightmare for the entire creative sector, audiovisual industry as well as phonografic industry.

A warning came even from the White House, obviously: let’s consider the key role of the major for the electoral campains “made in US”.

There are, in any case, many people who hope in the illusion of the “all for free”.

But, above all, such a news deserves a deep reflection. If the portal will be active, the loss for the creative sector can be apocalyptic and difficult to be quantified. We would like to remind that pay for original contents does not mean enrich those who had created that contents but, first of all, insert new resources for the re production of the system. Without new funds to be reinvested the productive eco-system would fail, as well as contents would disappear. And then, there will be nothing to joy for, not considering the dramatic loss for the cultural system at all.

The stand-by situation of the first week of the Dubai Itu confernece forecasted a difficult solution of the meeting organized by the United Nations in order to modify  the tlc  International agreement and, more in general, the regulation of the Internet. In the end of the conference, that took place in Dubai, between 3 and 14 December, these are the main results:

- The Un approved an agreement with 77 votes in favour and 33 against;

- 89 Countries – among them China, Russia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia – signed the new treaty;

- 55 Countries didn’t sign the treaty. Among them Usa, Canada, United Kingdom. They accused the treaty to be against the Internet freedom and decided to abandon the meeting.

- Other Countries, including Italy, remained in stand-by, waiting to make a choice.

In the end, the Conference has been a substantial “flop”.

First of all the new treaty has been judged damaging to the internet freedom, despite Hamadoun Touré (Itu  Secretary General) reassurances. Moreover the treaty can have different interpretations, possibly leading to Countries ratifying the treaty through different applications.

According to many analists the “Internet war” has become a geopolitical affaire within a new “cold war”. Countries will be divided in two blocks depending on whether they
did or did not sign the treaty, which basically gives Governments more power in dealing with matters concerning the Internet.

And this worries Countries like US that strongly aim to maintain the multistakeholders approach. Likewise, obviously, Google that declared  to be “on the side of those who reject the Treaty, in favour of a free and open Internet.” Same position also for Robert Mc Dowell, Commissioner at the FCC – Federal Communications Commission “only an Internet isolated from governative’s regulamentations don’t undermine the success of the Internet governance based on the multistakeholder’s model”.

Even if it’s clear, on the one hand, that US tries to protect their own interests, it’s even more clear, on the other hand, that there will not be a shared treaty for tlc and the Internet.

The treaty will become law by 2015 so, in the next 2 years many thing could change. The next Itu meeting will be held in South Corea in 2014.