Time to Offshore Cybercrime

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http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/your-cybercrime-friendly-legislation/00/12/345550/

In the last week of December, 2008, the Parliament of India has passed
the amendments to the Information Technology Act 2000, which is
popularly known as Indian cyberlaw. The IT Amendment Act 2008 brings
about various sweeping changes in the existing Cyberlaw...

The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian Cyberlaw a cyber crime
friendly legislation; — a legislation that goes extremely soft on
cyber criminals, with a soft heart; a legislation that chooses to
encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment
accorded to them under the existing law; a legislation that chooses to
give far more freedom to cyber criminals than the existing legislation
envisages; a legislation which actually paves the way for cyber
criminals to wipe out the electronic trails and electronic evidence by
granting them bail as a matter of right; a legislation which makes a
majority of cybercrimes stipulated under the IT Act as bailable
offences; a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the world.

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