Politech: FC: Copyright wars: Cops nab 14-year old, librarians as terrorists

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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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