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Europe votes on anti-piracy laws
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| Other amendments added to the packet of laws allow governments to decide
| which software can be used on the web.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7492907.stm
What?!?!
Locked out?
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| Another amendment put forward by Mr Kamall allows that "traffic data may be
| processed… to ensure the security of a public electronic communication
| service", which the campaigners read as giving carte blanche to the content
| providers to monitor and control what happens on the network on the grounds
| that copying files or breaking digital rights management counts as
| a "security" breach.
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| I'm not so sure.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7493365.stm
Guess which company is partly behind such anti-FOSS laws.
Recent:
Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform
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| The Hill Times this week includes an astonishingly misleading and factually
| incorrect article on Canadian copyright written by Microsoft.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2670/125/
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