Terrific!
I beg you to write it, as my written english (as the spoken) would be a
nut vessel in this atlantic storm argument.
HugÇ!
Rob van Kranenburg escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> maybe we could put this out too, say bricolabs fully support this FSF
> press release and add one more paragraph on open source hardware, and
> metareciclagem?
>
> greetings! Rob
>
>
>
> Ian Lawrence schreef:
>
>> Hi,
>> >From FSF Latin America List
>>
>>
>>> (Moçada, por que a gente tá tão parado e não está se mobilizando contra
>>> o projeto do Azeredo?)
>>>
>>>
>> Anyhow, here's a draft press release. It would probably be wise to
>> publish it on Monday, so we don't have much time to polish it further
>> and translate it. Nevertheless, comments (and hopefully board
>> approval) are welcome.
>>
>> I'll probably work on translating it to Portuguese after getting some
>> sleep. Help in translating it to Portuguese and Spanish are
>> definitely welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>> == Stop authoriterrorism.net.br
>>
>> Brazil, July 7, 2008---Pressure from banks against on-line fraud,
>> already covered by existing law, is being used as excuse to push
>> through major threats to society. Puppets in the Brazilian Senate are
>> about to approve a bill supported by banking and copyright profiteers
>> in detriment of freedom and privacy of the people they were elected to
>> serve and represent. Bill 89/2003 criminalizes day-to-day Internet
>> activities, and it is likely to be voted in the Senate this week.
>> <br/>http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/2008-07-05-surpresa,-sou-contra
>> (in Portuguese)
>>
>> The bill introduces on-line surveillance, demanding networking service
>> providers to record customers' every on-line activity, and to share
>> with authorities logs and received reports of possibly-illicit
>> activities. The wording is so broad that providers may be heftily
>> fined if they fail to retain, for at least 3 years, a copy of every
>> packet that crosses its network. Even more serious than the costs and
>> risks, imposed on service providers, is the danger to users' privacy,
>> ensuring the possibility of retroactive wiretapping of every VoIP
>> phone call, every e-mail or instant message sent or received, every
>> visited web-page and every on-line transaction.
>>
>> It further establishes jail time for such broad activities as
>> unauthorized access to computer systems, networks, and data stored in
>> them. In spite of being justified and promoted by banks on the
>> grounds of stopping criminals from obtaining, selling or destroying
>> information through fraud or exploitation of vulnerabilities, it is
>> worded so broadly that it can be easily abused by suppliers of
>> electronic equipment (computers such as servers, desktops, laptops,
>> video games, cell phones, digital cameras, media players and
>> recorders, etc) and of digitally-encoded information (text, audio,
>> video, software, etc).
>>
>> Abuses may range from legal threats to actual jail time for people who
>> unlock video games or cell phones to install software not approved by
>> the supplier; who work around deliberate defects in media players or
>> recorders to gain access to songs or movies stored in them; who use
>> copyrighted works in ways that do not infringe on copyrights, but that
>> authoriterrorists would like to outlaw.
>> <br/>http://defectivebydesign.org/
>> <br/>http://drm.info/
>>
>> Authoriterrorism is the practice of (i) mislabeling as property a
>> limited monopoly granted by society to get, after an originally short
>> period of deprivation, more creative works available for all to enjoy
>> and build upon; (ii) promoting the extension of the monopoly and other
>> authoritarian laws that grant authoriterrorists technical and legal
>> means to steal from society the fulfillment of the goal of copyrights;
>> (iii) using these technical and legal measures and scare tactics to
>> stop people from using works in ways that fall outside the scope or
>> the period of the monopoly; (iv) brainwashing people so they believe
>> they don't and shouldn't have the right to use works in these ways,
>> that it would somehow harm authors (as if authoriterrorists didn't),
>> and that it is the moral equivalent of invading ships, stealing the
>> cargo and enslaving or murdering the tripulation.
>> <br/>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml
>> <br/>http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/2008-07-02-against-DRM-law-in-Canada
>> <br/>http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/PIFAQ (in Portuguese)
>>
>> But just think for a moment about who is invading our homes, building
>> spies and policemen into our electronic equipment; tying our hands,
>> and putting on blinds and gags on us through this same equipment,
>> stealing through force our fair use rights and the public domain;
>> enslaving us by ensuring we can only do what they want us to do, and
>> killing our wish to fight for our rights by fooling us into feeling
>> guilty. Who are the real pirates, and who is really being harmed?
>>
>> Bills that would give even more power to the powerful authoritarian
>> intermediaries, that exploit authors and terrorize society, appear to
>> not be in short supply these days. Rushing them to approval, avoiding
>> public debate, is a common trait for such bills that harm the society.
>> <br/>http://www.defectivebydesign.org/fight-the-canadian-dmca
>> <br/>http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-72379/european-parliament-rushes-towards-soviet-internet
>> <br/>http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1117
>>
>> Representatives in democratic governments ought to remember what
>> democracy stands for, that the law in a democratic state is supposed
>> to benefit society, and resist the pressure and the lobbying to grant
>> any authoriterrorist even more power over the people they represent.
>>
>> Fraud, blackmail, violation of privacy and of trade secrets are
>> already crimes, regardless of whether they're perpetrated on-line, and
>> they haven't prevented Brazilian banks from making huge and growing
>> profits.
>>
>> Permanent on-line surveillance is too much of a privacy threat to be
>> regarded as a potential solution for these crimes, rather than a
>> problem on its own, and there is no doubt that the availability of all
>> this information will be abused by authoriterrorists as well.
>>
>> We beg for help in bringing this urgent issue to the public's
>> attention, lifting the apparent gag order upon the national press, and
>> bringing to public shame any representative who sells out and votes
>> into law this anti-democratic weapon of mass criminalization.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
>> Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
>> FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/
>> Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
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