__/ [ Da'Punk-A ] on Saturday 24 June 2006 11:29 \__
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> [H]omer wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> > | The move was a shot across the bowels
>> > | from a group of Russian hackers called Dark Group which felt they
>> > | should have a cut of the action. Such groups are usually backed
>> > | by the Russian Mafia and if they don't win then their bosses tend
>> > | to make them offers they can't refuse.
>>
>> 'Bout time the international law makers and governments did something
>> about these scum.
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> Are you serious? Ever since the end of Soviet communism, organized
> crime has been the own growth industry in Russia, its biggest
> export,and some say its de facto government. And there's nothing "the
> international law makers and governments" can do about it. Tell the
> Russian government to "sort out" its cybercrime problem, they'll say
> "What problem? We've got plenty of cybercriminals." So how do you
> solve the issue? Invade the country so you can impose your will on the
> Russians?
The folloing emerged recently:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/world/europe/01cnd-mp3.html?ex=1306814400&en=4c9bcba30952e86b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| So great is the official level of concern about AllofMP3 that American
| trade negotiators darkly warned that the Web site could jeopardize
| Russia's long-sought entry into the World Trade Organization.
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Basically, political affairs are entiwined with piracy, which is worrisome,
much as in:
http://digg.com/technology/Demonstration_held_in_response_to_the_raid_on_The_Pirate_Bay
Read comment #1 (with typos):
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| There are many who say that "they deserved it because they are violating
| copyrights". We could debate for ages on copyrights... but the reason for
| the demonstration is not all about the copyrights. When a corperation has
| the ability to munipulate a foreign governments law enforcement and
| goverment into raiding a legal business (it may not be legal in the US
| but US law does not apply outside the US), then theres reason to be
| worried. Corperations are getting greedier and worse as time progresses.
| In the last decade they've been trying to make as much money as possbile
| with spending as little money as possible. In the next decade we will
| likely see more corperations attempting to persade goverments into
| taking serious actions (legal or not) for their benifit, and we're
| already seeing the very beginnings of this trend.
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