[LINK] Proposal for International Law Enforcement

[Craig Sanders]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:56:14AM +1100, David Boxall wrote:

> > ...Graham Ingram, general manager of Australia?s security response
> > team AusCERT, said the world needs a large deterrent. Something like,
> > ?A law enforcement agency with enough power to go offensively and
> > find them.?

one trouble with this idea is that if any such agency were created,
it would instantly be hijacked by the RIAA and MPAA and other lobby
groups for the copyright industries and immediately focus exclusively
on inflicting their self-serving interpretation of american laws on
the rest of the world. viruses, spam, cracking, etc and other real
crimes would be ignored except when there was some direct or indirect
association with copyright infringement.

(and that's making the rather unlikely assumption that hijacking would
be necessary, that this ISN'T being proposed by them for exactly that
reason)

another is that it makes a mockery of national sovereignty. e.g. reverse
engineering is perfectly legal in some countries, and illegal in others.
whose law prevails? might makes right, of course.

we've already got more than enough MAI treaties masquerading as "Free
Trade" treaties to undermine national sovereignty, we don't need
american...oops..."international" cops as well.



craig

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