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UK P2P user? Hope you like US prison food
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| The [US] PRO-IP bill, H.R.4279, significantly increases the state's power to
| detect and prosecute IP infringement, carrying with it a whole host of new
| law enforcement positions and capabilities. It establishes an IP Czar,
| someone with the job of overseeing zealous action on behalf of copyright and
| trademark owners, and includes such powers as the ability to seize equipment
| if it contains just one file thought to infringe.
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| [...]
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| As a UK citizen, you no longer have any effective defence against a US demand
| for deportation. Under the Extradition Act 2003 the US can apply for a UK
| citizen to be extradited without having to present any evidence to face
| charges of a crime committed in the US – for which the UK citizen need not
| have been actually present.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008415o-2000331777b,00.htm
More here:
A shaming victory on 42 days
http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/2008/06/shaming-victory-on-42-days.html
Police Chief Faces High Court Anti-Piracy Action
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| UK music licensing outfit the “Performing Right Society” (PRS) - the guys
| that come asking for money when you play any music within earshot of the
| public - is rolling out the big guns ready for a High Court showdown with a
| little known group of music pirates, known in the UK as ‘the police’. Not the
| band of the same name, but that government organization people rely on for
| keeping law and order.
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| According to a report, the police in the county of Lancashire have apparently
| committed a terrible crime and let the whole country down. Rather like the
| copyright infringing tea-rooms and their carol-singing occupants we wrote
| about last year, it appears that the police have been recklessly listening to
| music in stations all over the county - without a license. The PRS aren’t
| happy.
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http://torrentfreak.com/police-chief-faces-high-court-anti-piracy-action-120608/
Canada also:
More Unspeakable Acts
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| In other words, all this stuff is just a prelude to the even more Draconian,
| even less democratic ACTA which is beetling towards us. Time to start
| protesting, people....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-unspeakable-acts.html
Recent:
Embattled ACTA Negotiations Next Week In Geneva; US Sees Signing This Year
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| Criticism from NGOs
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| Canadian law expert David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa’s
| Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, told the Ottawa Citizen
| that the discussion paper was very close to a potential Christmas wish-list
| by Hollywood companies.
|
| Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), in an earlier statement filed to USTR,
| warned against a lack in differentiation and clearness of core terms, like
| counterfeiting, infringement or piracy. “Is Microsoft a “pirate” for
| insisting on the right to continue to infringe the z4 patents in order to use
| an infringing DRM technology to protect Microsoft software itself from
| infringement by unauthorised uses?” KEI asked in its statement.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1071
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