In case you haven't been following the copyright/censorship fight, everything quoted below is on the record, not speculation:
In the US, the MPAA and RIAA... just submitted comments to the American Intellectual Property Czar, Victoria Espinel, laying out their proposal for IP enforcement. They want us all to install spyware on our computers that deletes material that it identifies as infringing. They want our networks censored by national firewalls.... They want border-searches of laptops, personal media players and thumb-drives.
They want poor countries bullied into diverting GDP from humanitarian causes to enforcing copyright. And they want their domestic copyright enforcement handled, free of charge, by the Department of Homeland Security.
The boldface is mine, the
article is Cory Doctorow's for
The Guardian, UK. I hate the name of his
website, but he's extremely smart about digital freedom and many other things.
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