Z:gnu-www-ja-digital-inclusion-in-freedom--213536-The publishers and their frien/en

The publishers and their friendly governments would like to go to any length they can get away with to wage the War on Sharing. In the US, the record companies' legal arm (the RIAA) regularly sues teenagers for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and one sharer was fined almost two million.28 The French government recently passed a law (HADOPI) to abolish the principle of due process of law, by punishing Internet users with disconnection on the mere accusation of copying. Only certain selected, government-approved organizations were empowered to make such accusations; thus, this law meant to abolish Libert&eacute;, Egalit&eacute;, and Fraternit&eacute; with one blow.