Diane Francis: Cyber Theft

Raising the volume on cyber theft Diane Francis, Financial Post, Oct. 13, 05

CAMBRIDGE - John Palfrey is the soft-spoken executive director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Housed in a Victorian mansion, the Center is one of many cyber-champions that have been raising the volume on the debate about the future of the Internet and intellectual property rights.
At stake is the system of gigantic corporations and individuals -- who own rights to everything from music to software or movies -- against computerized hordes of "geeks" and young people who get hold of these products without paying any fees, rents or royalties. [. . . . ]

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extending their patent and copyright protection
piracy or Internet exchanges of music, movies and software
bandwidth shaping
The Open Net Initiative tries to stop China's efforts to

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