EU proposal sets sanctions for copyright violations
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| Companies from across IT face criminal sanctions, including prison time for
| employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are
| ever used to carry illegally copied material such as music or film,
| according to a draft law from the European Commission supported Tuesday by
| a committee of the European Parliament.
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| The controversial draft law has sparked an outcry, uniting rivals
| within the IT industry, ranging from free and open source software
| advocates, the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, at
| one end to a lobbyist for the world's biggest software companies,
| the Business Software Alliance (BSA), at the other.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/032007-eu-proposal-sets-sanctions-for.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Open Source Software used in fight for human rights
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| A secure, encrypted link is established and the user logs in using a
| username and password. Once this is done, the user is able to access
| all of the internet through this secure channel, thereby overcoming
| censors and avoiding detection. Because the web address is only sent
| to a few, trusted, people, the censors cannot easily find and block the
| location of the psiphon server.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1414
The problem here is not 'piracy', which should not be condoned, but rather
the intrusion and the attempt to close down legitimate channels of
communication. Certain letters are being send which already characterise the
notion of P2P as some sort of crime, regardless of what information is
swapped.
Related:
The FUD Campaign. Bruce S. reckons that someone in the music industry may
have bribed the PTO to issue this BS.
File sharing could threaten personal and national security
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| A recent government report says that the old adage "buyer beware" now
| even applies to those who are not technically buying anything at all.
| Despite the reputation of "free" downloads, much of the illegal file
| sharing done on the internet comes at a steep price: personal and
| national security.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6424471&partner=eb&spacedesc=news
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