From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Fri 14 May 2004 - 22:41:00 EEST
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:08:50 -0500
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@freelists.org>
From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@edu-cyberpg.com>
Subject: SECUR> Cyber-Crime Laws Hurt More Than They Help
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Cyber-Crime Laws Hurt More Than They Help
http://www.eweek.com/
An eWeek editorial on the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime.
Cyberlaws such as the federal DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and
stronger state versions often hamper innovation, resulting in such cases as
lawsuits for making interoperable products, or security software being pulled
from the Internet because it may violate a state law. The Convention on
Cybercrime could extend such laws outside the United States to the world as a
whole. Requirements for international cooperation could lead a country to
investigate a citizen on behalf of another country for actions that are not
crimes in the citizen's country. Such action could be used against political
dissidents. Material acceptable in one country, such as a swimsuit catalog, may
violate decency laws in another. Nations could conduct industrial espionage by
requesting Internet records from a service provider under the guise of an
investigation.
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