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[News] [Rival] Microsoft + ACTA = Police States

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Microsoft could force your mobile into silence

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| Microsoft is developing a new technology that could force mobiles into silent 
| mode, or even prevent calls from being made. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Phone jammers, which work in small spaces, are banned in the UK and come with
a hefty fine for use.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/microsoft-could-force-your-mobile-into-silence-393006

Website accusing of corruption, more dangerous than a mass murder?

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| That's how the legal system in New Zealand judged it. Refusing to take down 
| the website could send you to jail indefinitely, because refusing to comply 
| with such a court order is probably as offending as a serial murder, right?  
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/06/18/07/32/31-website-accusing-of-corruption-m


Recent:

Digital copyright: it's all wrong

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| The ACTA draft is a scary document. If a treaty based on its provisions were
| adopted, it would enable any border guard, in any treaty country, to check
| any electronic device for any content that they suspect infringes copyright
| laws. They need no proof, only suspicion.
|
| They would be able to seize any device - laptop, iPod, DVD recorder, mobile
| phone, etc - and confiscate it or destroy anything on it, merely on
| suspicion. On the spot, no lawyers, no right of appeal, no nothing.
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/technology/digital-copyright-its-all-wrong/2008/06/09/1212863783566.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
http://tinyurl.com/6ylvpx


Embattled ACTA Negotiations Next Week In Geneva; US Sees Signing This Year

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| Criticism from NGOs
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| Canadian law expert David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa’s
| Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, told the Ottawa Citizen
| that the discussion paper was very close to a potential Christmas wish-list
| by Hollywood companies.
|
| Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), in an earlier statement filed to USTR,
| warned against a lack in differentiation and clearness of core terms, like
| counterfeiting, infringement or piracy. “Is Microsoft a “pirate” for
| insisting on the right to continue to infringe the z4 patents in order to use
| an infringing DRM technology to protect Microsoft software itself from
| infringement by unauthorised uses?” KEI asked in its statement.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1071
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