[free-sklyarov] FW: FC: Copyright wars: Cops nab 14-year old, librarians as terrorists]

[Jon O .]

You might want to look at this:


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1333000/1333378.stm
>The authorities in Hong Kong have arrested a 14-year-old boy for allegedly 
>allowing people to download pirated pop songs free of charge on the Internet.


http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6545588-0.html
>...librarians are finding themselves the subject of rhetoric usually 
>reserved for terrorists or revolutionaries. "They've got their radical 
>factions, like the Ruby Ridge or Waco types," who want to share all 
>content for free, said Judith Platt, a spokeswoman for the Association of 
>American Publishers.


Andy Ringsmuth <andyring at inebraska.com> forwards this, and says:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6674297.html?tag=tp_pr
>Declan, seems like ISPs are bowing to pressure from the MPAA and RIAA
>pertaining to file sharing using services such as Napster, Aimster and
>Gnutella.
>Never mind that all these services can and are used for perfectly legit
>file sharing activities.


http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=205915
>WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- The FBI served multiple search warrants 
>nationwide Wednesday in an ongoing investigation of Internet-based 
>software piracy, the bureau's Washington Field Office said. The search 
>warrants targeted "file transfer protocol," or FTP, sites in at least nine 
>states.


http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2001/07/26/story/0000095869
>INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Instead of setting up large production
>facilities, makers of bootleg films are working out of small shops to
>minimize losses in case of a bust





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