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New copyright treaty legalises border checks of your devices

theage.com.au — 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.

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  • sherrife, on 06/20/2008, -0/+13Corporate (intellectual property) rights taken to their logical conclusion.

    ***** that.
  • alapoet, on 06/20/2008, -0/+11really bad idea. really bad legislation.
  • sherrife, on 06/20/2008, -0/+11FTA:

    The draft contains other draconian measures. It proposes a governing body for copyright protection that would operate outside organisations such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the UN. In short, it proposes a global police force, answerable to no one, with intrusive powers that vastly exceed those currently available to adherents of the concept of intellectual property.
  • txtphile, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1China will curb-stomp this baby in infancy. I'm not too worried... yet.
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