Polish Prime Minister Steps Up His Anti-ACTA Efforts After Hosting 7-Hour Open Q&A Via IRC
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White House announces new privacy “Bill of Rights,” Do Not Track agreement
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The Netherlands And The U.S. Have Signed Cybercrime Treaty – Will Hunt Down Hackers
23 02 2012Dutch Minister of Justice Ivo Opstelten announced that the two countries will work together on topics such as critical infrastructure protectection and that they will share information as well as knowledge and expertise whenever hackers are attacking those infrastructures
“We want to find the criminals who are behind those attacks”, the Minister stated.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2747630/nederland-tekent-verdrag-cybercrime.html
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BSA report has warned that certain countries are threatening the future of cloud computing with regulations and policies that stifle the fluffy atmosphere
23 02 2012Right now, too many countries have too many different rules standing in the way of the kind of trade in digital services we really need
The Business Software Alliance published a Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, which noted that countries including India, China and Brazil would need “significant legal and regulatory reforms” before they could join a global cloud.
But the group also pointed out that rules and regulations on the cards for regions such as the European Union could undermine how well countries there are doing so far.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/22/bsa_global_cloud_hindrance/
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Categories : Education / Awareness, Legislation, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports, The Cloud
Failed anti-game legislation will cost California nearly $1.8 million
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State of California has reached an agreement with Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM and others to prosecute developers who do not abide by new privacy policies
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EU To Refer ACTA To EU’s Top Court For Legal Clarification
22 02 2012EU to US: It’s your content, but it’s our infrastructure
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120222-705795.html
Viviane Reding, the EU’s commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship had shortly earlier flagged up on Twitter a statement of her own in which she said “copyright protection can never be a justification for eliminating freedom of expression or freedom of information.”
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How the European Internet Rose Up Against ACTA
22 02 2012Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland sent a letter to his fellow leaders in the EU Friday urging them to reject ACTA, reversing Poland’s course with the controversial intellectual-property treaty, and possibly taking Europe with them.
“I was wrong,” Tusk explained to a news conference, confessing his government had acted recklessly with a legal regime that wasn’t right for the 21st century. The reversal came after Tusk’s own strong statements in support of ACTA and condemnation of Anonymous attacks on Polish government sites, and weeks of street protest in Poland and across Europe.
The seeming overnight success came after both years of work by European NGOs, and the spark of the SOPA/PIPA protests in America (which included Wired.com).
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The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
22 02 2012On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June, his goal and that of his allies is to establish “international control over the Internet” through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under U.N. auspices.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204792404577229074023195322.html
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Dutch Economics Minister Verhagen Says ACTA Is Designed To Shut Down Child Porn Sites… Even Though That’s Not True
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Pirates And Nazi’s…What Do They Have In Common?
20 02 20121. They hate the US, that’s for sure
2. They like it when they can get stuff for free
3. They do not want to be disturbed during their search for treasure
4. They sometimes share servers (and revenue)
5. They dress funny
French National Front woos internet pirates
Extreme right backs music tax alternative to Hadopi
The leader of the French National Front party, Marine Le Pen, wants Hadopi scrapped and replaced with a blanket licence to compensate creative industries. The extreme right party’s freetard-friendly gambit has caused the Socialists, who also oppose Hadopi, to rethink their policies.
Alliances between the pirates and far right parties are increasing. Most notoriously, the Pirate Bay was bankrolled by Carl Lundström, the heir to the Wasabröd fortune. Lundström financially supported the Progress Party and the racist Keep Sweden Swedish campaign, and was linked to a racist attack in 1985. [Swedish / English Translation.]
Much more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/20/freetards_vote_for_us/
Previously:
Pirate Bay’s neo-Nazi sugar daddy - And the strange silence of the Freetards
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/pirate_bay_neo_nazi/
Wikileaks–in the news after publishing classified U.S. military documents–is connected to “Pirate Bay,” the patron of which is the Nazi-affiliated Carl Lundstrom.
http://spitfirelist.com/news/wikileaks-connected-to-swedish-nazi-milieu/
Assange’s Extremist Employees. Meet Russian-born, Swedish-domiciled, multi-aliased anti-Semite and Holocaust denier currently writing under the name “Israel Shamir,” a.k.a. Adam Ermash or Jöran Jermas
http://vrritti.com/2010/12/24/assanges-extremist-employees-meet-russian-born-swedish-domiciled-multi-aliased-anti-semite-and-holocaust-denier-currently-writing-under-the-name-%e2%80%9cisrael-shamir%e2%80%9d-a-k-a-adam-ermas/
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Categories : Blocking, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Enforcement, Filtering, Copyright
The government should not change UK copyright laws until supposed problems with the current framework can be assessed in light of how a new ‘digital copyright exchange’ (DCE) works, the Publishers Association has said
20 02 2012Richard Mollet, chief executive of the association, said that the benefits the DCE could bring could eradicate the need for new exceptions to copyright to be introduced.
“The DCE speaks to a market-based, fully voluntary, facilitation of licensing, where IP is respected and used as the basis for driving economic growth,” Mollet said in a blog post.
“However, the consultation looks to weaken copyright, undermine licensing and forestall the development of new business models, with a clear detrimental impact on growth. The government should suspend progress with its proposed radical re-writing of copyright law until such time as the DCE has got off the ground and into operation,” he said. “If, as all believe, it could greatly improve the speed and ease of copyright licensing, then many of the problems identified by Hargreaves will disappear. This will obviate the need for policies that weaken copyright and which, at the last time of checking the IPO’s assessment of their impact on growth in the British economy, were predominantly described with the phrase, worrying for its vagueness, ‘not quantified’.”
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Police probing ‘threats’ over Canadian internet privacy bill
19 02 2012The Canadian public safety minister Vic Toews has called in the police to investigate threats made against him and his family in response to his internet privacy bill, which has also provoked a storm of online protest.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/18/police_threats_canada_internet_toews/
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MegaUpload Hit ‘Home’: The Dutch Government is proposing to make it easier to use copyrighted material without infringing copyright owners’ rights and plans to do this ‘unilaterally’ of the EU
17 02 2012“If you look at the motion picture industry, you see that they continue to enjoy very healthy revenues. On the other hand the music industry has struggled somewhat. But in the end there are more opportunities being created by these new technologies than ever before. There are more bands, using more different technologies to reach more fans than ever before. So there is certainly no crisis of creativity. There’s more music, more video, more writing going on today than ever before,” Von Lohmann, chief copyright counsel for Google, said.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/17/dutch_government_to_further_liberalise_copyright/
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Polish government asks European Parliament not to sign ACTA
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Single Movie Download Could See Swedes Prosecuted
17 02 2012The Swedish Government wants to implement a change in the law which has the potential to make Sweden one of the toughest countries in the world to share files.
http://torrentfreak.com/single-movie-download-could-see-swedes-prosecuted-120216/
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EU Member Bulgaria Halts ACTA, Minister Of Economy Offers Resignation
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Head of Mozilla Says ACTA Is ‘A Bad Way To Develop Internet Policy’
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Belgium to study impact of ACTA
16 02 2012Dutch language news article:
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Statement by Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, on freedom of expression and information via the Internet, attempts to block websites, “three-strikes-laws”, and ACTA
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Categories : Blocking, Copyright, Enforcement, Legislation, Three Strikes
EU Official Who Resigned Over ACTA Details Why ACTA Is Dangerous; While His Replacement Seems Unlikely To Care
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Canada wants warrantless Internet spying, says critics support child porn
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Dutch Parliament Will Not Approve ACTA Until They Are 100% Certain It Is Not In Conflict With Any Fundamental Rights
14 02 2012Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2740683/kamer-vraagt-uitstel-acta.html
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Is Harry Reid Slipping SOPA Into A New Cyber-Security Bill?
14 02 2012Whispers of the untimely return of SOPA, PIPA, and even Kill Switch
http://www.webpronews.com/harry-reid-sopa-cybersecurity-2012-02
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Anti-Piracy Organization BREIN Supports ACTA. Even Feels ACTA Could Use A Bit More Meat On The Bone
13 02 2012BREIN also states that in relation to ACTA, the internet has turned out to be a catalyst for misinformation. Sensible people should study ACTA and not blindly retweet just anything they come across.
Dutch language articles:
http://www.brein.info/artikelen.php?id=20
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2740026/acta-verandert-niets-europeanen.html
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