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UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users
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| According to the BBC this week's deal takes the form of a Memorandum of
| Understanding between the ISPs and the Department for Business, Enterprise &
| Regulatory Reform (BERR). Under it, ISPs are reported to have committed to
| achieving a significant reduction in illegal filesharing, and to educate
| their customers on copyright. They need only follow the shining examples of
| the RIAA and the BPI and lo, it will be done.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/berr_isp_mou/
Dying companies and corrupt governments are running scared, so they change the
law. They take away people's freedom and throw the babies out with the
bathwater.
Recent:
Cable giants bullied into new child porn censorship deal
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| The group will provide each cable company with a list of Web site addresses
| that they believe contain child porn.
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| [...]
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| It is unclear what, if any, notification cable customers will receive before
| their Web sites are deleted, or what legal rights they will have to appeal
| the classification of their content as illegal child pornography.
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| The memo of understanding states that the private group will provide cable
| companies with a list of kiddie porn URLs, that "in NCMEC's good faith"
| appears to meet the federal definition of child pornography.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9994159-46.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Court Strikes Down Internet Censorship Law
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| We just received word today that the Third Circuit struck down a federal
| Internet censorship law as unconstitutional. The law, called the Child Online
| Protection Act, imposed civil and criminal penalties on those who
| place “harmful to minors” material on the Web. Under this law, no adult, no
| matter how mature or responsible, would have been allowed to see material
| that is deemed unfit for a child. The law would have forced vast swaths of
| constitutionally protected speech off of the Web.
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http://blog.aclu.org/2008/07/22/court-strikes-down-internet-censorship-law/
New York threatens Comcast with anti-porn suit
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| With this ongoing campaign, Cuomo has brought himself reams of publicity. But
| in the long run, his grandstanding has likely buried more legitimate free
| speech than child pornography. The likes of AT&T and Time Warner used their
| Cuomo agreements as an excuse to vaporize large swaths of Usenet where New
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| York hasn't found "sexually lewd photos featuring prepubescent children." And
| though the AG has successfully choked access to roughly 88 newsgroups that do
| contain child porn, you can bet the pornographers will simply move elsewhere.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/cuomo_threatens_comcast_with_lawsuit/
US Court Strikes Down COPA, Again
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| A U.S. appeals court has for the third time struck down a law intended to
| keep Web sites with sexually oriented themes away from children, with judges
| saying the law is a vague and overly broad attack on free speech.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148762/us_court_strikes_down_copa_again.html
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