[LINK] "Good Samaritan" hacker pleads guilty to breaking and entering

[Michael Lean]

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Indeed, couldn't agree more. Look at the excesses being perpetrated by the 
copyright lobby in the US - terms of protection extended into infinity, 
fair dealing rights eroded by arbitrary copy protection,  research 
publication stifled by the DMCA, (Sklarov, Felton) and now the introduction 
of ideas about inbuilt copy barriers on digital equipment. Trouble is, 
these deals are worked out by lawyers representing copyright owners, and 
the ordinary consumer doesn't even get a seat at the table. So far, 
Australian copyright legislation has remained reasonably workable for 
everyone, but I'll bet we're going to come under pressure to "conform", via 
various world trade agreements and things.
cheers,
Mike


At 10:47 AM 28/09/2001 +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:

>We are seeing the consequences of unbridled corporate greed,
>heavily lobbied legislation (where is the people's lobby?), and yes, the
>deterioration of the freedoms once provided by the Internet. And in an
>astonishingly short period of time. Ten years ago, the word Internet was
>not in common use; now it is one of the most evocative and content-rich
>words in use by the mass media.

Michael M. Lean JP
University Copyright Officer
Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University
Brisbane, Australia

...the raison d'etre of the web, both in its  utopian and capitalist 
manifestations, is the click; to resist the click is to resist the web. Who 
would want to do a thing like that?
Keith Gessen  "The New Write"  in The Australian 30/5/01
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