°Border softwars [aka there are many copies]

June 11, 2008

From Graeme Philipson’s piece in the Age:

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.

While the borders proliferate, they’re being proposed as the means to stem proliferations of another kind. The leak of the US ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement is here, scheduled to be discussed at the G8 in Tokyo, next month.

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