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Subject: [GNU-traductores] gnudist:/home/www/html/philosophy/right-to-read.html -- recent changes
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:52:24 -0800 (PST)

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Recent changes to /home/www/html/philosophy/right-to-read.html:

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+++ /home/www/html/philosophy/right-to-read.html        Fri Jan  4 15:07:35 2002
@@ -186,36 +186,59 @@
 <h4><A HREF="/philosophy/right-to-read.html#TOCAuthorsNote"
        NAME="AuthorsNote">Author's Note</A></h4>
 
+<p> This note was updated in 2002.
+
 <p>
 The right to read is a battle being fought today.  Although it may
 take 50 years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity, most
 of the specific laws and practices described above have already been
-proposed--either by the Clinton Administration or by publishers.
+proposed; many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.  In
+the US, the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act established the legal
+basis to restrict the reading and lending of computerized books (and
+other data too).  The European Union imposed similar restrictions in a
+2001 copyright directive.
 
 <p>
 There is one exception: the idea that the FBI and Microsoft will keep
-the root passwords for personal computers.  This is an extrapolation
-from the Clipper chip and similar Clinton Administration key-escrow
-proposals, together with a long-term trend: computer systems are
-increasingly set up to give absentee operators control over the people
-actually using the computer system.
+the root passwords for personal computers, and not let you have them,
+has not been proposed.  This is an extrapolation from the Clipper chip
+and similar US government key-escrow proposals, together with a
+long-term trend: computer systems are increasingly set up to give
+absentee operators control over the people actually using the computer
+system.
+
+<p>
+But we are coming steadily closer to that point.  In 2001,
+Disney-funded Senator Hollings proposed a bill called the SSSCA that
+would require every new computer to have mandatory copy-restriction
+facilities that the user cannot bypass.
+
+<p>
+In 2001 the US began attempting to use the proposed Free Trade Area of
+the Americas treaty to impose the same rules on all the countries in
+the Western Hemisphere.  The FTAA is one of the so-called "free trade"
+treaties, actually designed to give business increased power over
+democratic governments; imposing laws like the DMCA is typical of this
+spirit.  The <A HREF="http://www.eff.org";>Electronic Frontier
+Foundation</A> asks people to explain to the other governments why
+they should oppose this plan.
 
 <p>
 The SPA, which actually stands for Software Publisher's Association,
-is not today an official police force.  Unofficially, it acts like
-one.  It invites people to inform on their coworkers and friends; like
-the Clinton Administration, it advocates a policy of collective
-responsibility whereby computer owners must actively enforce copyright
-or be punished.
-
-<p> The SPA is currently threatening small Internet service providers,
-demanding they permit the SPA to monitor all users.  Most ISPs
-surrender when threatened, because they cannot afford to fight back in
-court.  (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 Oct 96, D3.)  At least one
-ISP, Community ConneXion in Oakland CA, refused the demand and was
-actually <!-- <a href="https://www.c2.net/ispdc/";> -->sued.  The
-SPA is said to have dropped this suit recently, but they are sure to
-continue the campaign in various other ways.
+has been replaced in this police-like role by the BSA or Busines
+Software Alliance.  It is not, today, an official police force;
+unofficially, it acts like one.  Using methods reminiscent of the
+erstwhile Soviet Union, it invites people to inform on their coworkers
+and friends.  A BSA terror campaign in Argentina in 2001 made veiled
+threats that people sharing software would be raped in prison.
+
+<p> When this story was written, the SPA was threatening small
+Internet service providers, demanding they permit the SPA to monitor
+all users.  Most ISPs surrender when threatened, because they cannot
+afford to fight back in court.  (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 Oct
+96, D3.)  At least one ISP, Community ConneXion in Oakland CA, refused
+the demand and was actually sued.  The SPA later dropped the suit,
+but obtained the DMCA which gave them the power they sought.
 
 <p>
 The university security policies described above are not imaginary.
@@ -263,10 +286,9 @@
 
   <LI>Public Data or Private Data, Washington Post, 4 Nov 1996. We used to 
have a link to this, but Washinton Post has decided to start charging users who 
wishes to read articles on the web site and therefore we have decided to remove 
the link.
 
-  <LI><a href="http://www.public-domain.org/";>Union
-       for the Public Domain</a>--a new organization which aims
-       to resist and reverse the overextension of intellectual property
-       powers.
+  <LI><a href="http://www.public-domain.org/";>Union for the Public
+       Domain</a>--an organization which aims to resist and reverse
+       the overextension of copyright and patent powers.
 </UL>
 
 <HR>
@@ -324,7 +346,7 @@
 <P>
 Updated:
 <!-- hhmts start -->
-$Date: 2001/07/29 10:45:55 $ $Author: lmiguel $
+$Date: 2002/01/04 23:07:17 $ $Author: rms $
 <!-- hhmts end -->
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