Will they bring back flogging too?
Bob Morris @ Nov 26th 2005 08:31 - Category: Unfiled
European music and film industries now officially scary
Guardian: “The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute illegal downloaders.”
This from the generally apolitical Adam Curry.
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Mikevotes on 26 Nov 2005 at 1:02 pm #
Great find.
This is the base problem with the way the terror laws are written here in the US. Their application has already been expanded to go after “eco-terrorists” whose main crime was going after animal testing Huntington labs, one of the most egregious animal testers. There have been applications to extend terror laws to “narco-terrorists.”
How long until that illegal downloader is detained without access to a lawyer?
Mike
John. on 26 Nov 2005 at 2:14 pm #
If there is anybody out there that thinks the anti-terrorist laws were brought in to attack terrorists they are rather simple minded. They were brought in to protect the state and the corporate greed machine against what THEY consider terrorists. Not to protect the citizens against terorism.