2010/2/23 Joan Miller <pelok...@gmail.com>: > On 23 feb, 10:54, Joan Miller <pelok...@gmail.com> wrote: >> *Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important* >> >> Fascism is coming fastly to Internet because is the only communication >> way that governements (managed by the bank and multinationals) cann't >> control >> >> http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/21/acta-internet-enforc.html > > This is something that affects to all programmers: > > "This calls on all parties to ensure that "third party liability" (the > idea that ISPs, web-hosts, application developers, mobile carriers, > universities, apartment buildings, and other "third parties" to > infringement are sometimes liable for their users' copyright > infringements) is on the books in their countries. It doesn't spell > out what that liability should be, beyond "knowingly and materially > aiding" an infringement" > > http://craphound.com/acta_digital_chapter-1.pdf > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
<politics> Even if this is "Off Topic" (which I think it really isn't in any open source / free software-oriented mailing list), I want to agree with Joan. ACTA is a *real* problem that we must fend politically. Here is a blog post I wrote about the problem with making ISPs liable for what their users communicate: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Folofb.wordpress.com%2F&sl=sv&tl=en (sorry for the bad quality google translation -- this is an important topic!) Note the name of the important principle: "Mere conduit". </politics> -- http://olofb.wordpress.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
