On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected] > wrote:
> First there were SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and OPEN. Now there is going to be > Yet Another Attempt > to enact draconian legislation through mislabeling the real purpose of > IP legislation by inserting > it as a rider to law supposedly intended to help in combatting > Cyber-terrorism: CISPA. > > From the link below: > > "It's a little piece of Sopa [the Stop Online Piracy Act] wrapped up > in a bill that's > supposedly designed to facilitate detection of and defence against > cyber-security > threats. The language is so vague that an ISP could use it to monitor > communications of subscribers for potential infringement of > intellectual property." > > In effect this law is directed against file-sharers, not Cyber terrorism. > > http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17730266 How would CISPA impact Wikimedia? Kirill _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
