Previous Politech message: 'Council of Europe approves "cybercrime," "hate speech" treaty' http://www.politechbot.com/p-02785.html --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963538.html Mexico summit urges anti-piracy action By Declan McCullagh October 28, 2002, 9:13 AM PT WASHINGTON--The United States, China, Japan and other Pacific Rim nations have agreed to take more steps to curb Internet piracy and cooperate more closely on punishing "cybercrime." At the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which ended Sunday in Los Cabos, Mexico, President Bush and other politicians agreed on a set of anti-terrorism and trade-related measures that included "curtailing copyright infringement over the Internet" and enforcing intellectual property treaties. APEC's 21 members, which account for over 60 percent of the world's Internet users, also vowed to "enact comprehensive cyber security laws" that follow the example of the Council of Europe's controversial cybercrime treaty. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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