FC: Mexico summit urges anti-piracy and "cybercrime" action

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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   Mexico summit urges anti-piracy action
   By Declan McCullagh 
   October 28, 2002, 9:13 AM PT

   WASHINGTON--The United States, China, Japan and other Pacific Rim
   nations have agreed to take more steps to curb Internet piracy and
   cooperate more closely on punishing "cybercrime."
   
   At the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which ended Sunday in
   Los Cabos, Mexico, President Bush and other politicians agreed on a
   set of anti-terrorism and trade-related measures that included
   "curtailing copyright infringement over the Internet" and enforcing
   intellectual property treaties.
   
   APEC's 21 members, which account for over 60 percent of the world's
   Internet users, also vowed to "enact comprehensive cyber security
   laws" that follow the example of the Council of Europe's controversial
   cybercrime treaty.

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