ImperialX wrote...
This is the original article. I can't be sure whether it's accurate or not.
ZiggyOtaku wrote...
I find the idea almost impossible. What's the calculation for the number of computer users in the world?
There's no way 'Big Brother' can keep track of everyone in the world. I could understand, maybe, with future model computers, with trackers in them - but what about all those custom made computers?
However the point is that they can just go snooping around for no reason at all. Isn't that a violation of privacy?
It's kind of pathetic that this articles cites such luminaries as China, Russia, and Brazil as those countries of significance which have chosen not to participate in the drafting of these new copyright regulations, impliedly for the preservation of freedom.
Please, China is a haven for copyright infringement of all sorts. The US and Europe are always complaining, but the Chinese government doesn't care. Besides, this is a nation that censors google, what do they care about freedom? It's about economic advantage.
Russia is also pretty autocratic these days, with all the prefecture governors appointed by Putin and the opposition party leaders jailed.
And the President of Brazil just told the world that the financial crisis is the fault of white people.
The Financial Times wrote...
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.
He added: “I do not know any black or indigenous bankers so I can only say [it is wrong] that this part of mankind which is victimised more than any other should pay for the crisis.”
Wow, just wow. I'm not even sure if that is more insulting to white people with blue eyes, or to everyone else via the implication that they can't be successful bankers.