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Downloading files from the Internet to become a crime in Brazil
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| Another article from the draft law – article 22 – is also being targeted by
| ISPs and the law professors. It imposes an obligation to ISPs requiring them
| to secretly inform authorities of any suspicion of criminal activity of which
| they acquire knowledge.
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| According to the professors, te article creates a system of private
| surveillance and finger-pointing affecting every net user, since ISPs will be
| obliged to communicate cases in which – according to their own convictions –
| there would be potentially criminal activity.
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http://www.a2kbrasil.org.br/ENG/Downloading-files-from-the
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Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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