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FC: Copyright wars: Cops nab 14-year old, librarians as terrorists
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:02:35 -0400
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 () 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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