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From: blackh <gra...@li...> - 2003-02-06 21:23:59
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blackh Thu Feb 6 13:23:58 2003 EDT
Modified files:
/website index.php
Log:
New front page blurb.
Index: website/index.php
diff -u website/index.php:1.40 website/index.php:1.41
--- website/index.php:1.40 Sat Dec 28 08:22:15 2002
+++ website/index.php Thu Feb 6 13:23:55 2003
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<!-- $Id: index.php,v 1.40 2002/12/28 16:22:15 rossta Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: index.php,v 1.41 2003/02/06 21:23:55 blackh Exp $ -->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
@@ -21,29 +21,54 @@
<div id="rightCol">
<?php include("title.inc"); ?><br />
- by <a href="mailto:st...@bl...">Stephen Blackheath</a> - 8 May 2002<br />
- <br />
- Once there was a peer-to-peer file-sharing network called Napster. People happily shared music files in flagrant violation
- of copyright laws. Unfortunately Napster had a fatal weakness: It could be shut down.<br />
- <br />
- Free speech is under attack.<sup><a target="_top" href="http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/">1</a>, <a
- target="_top" href="http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/cpbfaq.html">2</a>, <a
- target="_top" href="http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens1.html">3</a>, <a
- target="_top" href="http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/s11l.htm">4</a>
- </sup> The
- legal system - now corrupted by corporations - is being used increasingly to deter and limit political expression. And
- without free expression of political ideas, democracy cannot exist.<br />
- <br />
- And, there are those among us who believe in the unrestricted right to publish anything.<br />
- <br />
- "But musicians have a right to be paid for their work!" I hear you cry.<sup><a
- target="_top" href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html">5</a></sup> And maybe you are not in favour of the
- completely free and unimpeded publication of hate speech, pornography, bad jokes, conspiracy theories and sit-coms. Or,
- perhaps you see these evils as the necessary price of freedom. Whatever you think, one thing is for sure. These arguments are
- about to be rendered academic by technology. You might as well argue whether the sun should rise and set.<br />
- <br />
- Welcome to the post-Napster era.<br />
- <br />
+ by <a href="mailto:st...@bl...">Stephen Blackheath</a> - 7 Feb 2003<br />
+ <p>We are creating a anonymizing storage network - a network that resembles the World
+ Wide Web, but is capable of allowing people to publish and retrieve information without
+ fear of censorship or surveillance.</p>
+ <p>Please take the time to read the excerpt below from the Council of Europe's recently
+ declassified (in a democracy?)
+ <a target="_top" href="http://www.sovereignty.net/center/treaty.html">Convention on Cybercrime</a>
+ - which stands a good chance of being adopted worldwide.</p>
+ <p>We are developing this software for two main reasons:
+ <ol>
+ <li>We believe your right to privacy and free speech is
+ inalienable - that is - you were born with it, and no government (or unaccountable and
+ secretive international organization for that matter) has the right to take it away.</li>
+ <li>We believe that intellectual property law is being seriously abused by industrial
+ interests and corrupt governments, to the detriment of all humanity.</li>
+ </ol></p>
+ <p>For more information, see the FAQ below.</p>
+ <table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFC0"><b>Title 5 - Real-time collection of computer data</b>
+ <p><b>Article 21 - Interception of content data</b></p>
+ <ol type="1">
+ <li>Each Party <i>[i.e. country]</i> shall adopt such legislative and other
+ measures as may be necessary, in relation to a range of serious offences to
+ be determined by domestic law, to empower its competent authorities to:
+ <ol type="a">
+ <li>collect or record through application of technical means on the territory
+ of that Party, and</li>
+ <li>compel a service provider, within its existing technical capability, to:
+ <ol type="i">
+ <li>collect or record through application of technical means on the territory
+ of that Party, and</li>
+ <li>co-operate and assist the competent authorities in the <b>collection or
+ recording of, content data, in real-time,</b> of specified
+ communications in its territory transmitted by means of a computer system.</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>...</li>
+ <li>Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary
+ to oblige a service provider to <b>keep confidential the fact of and any information
+ about the execution of any power provided for in this Article</b>.</li>
+ </ol>
+ <p><i>[Emphasis is ours.]</i></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
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