Pirate Law to Defend Human Rights
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Human rights advocates are utilizing a 200-year old claims act to try to get justice in the U.S. for victims of riots four years ago in Bolivia
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Human rights group files lawsuit against internet company.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Dec 15 (OneWorld) - Abuses and even torture of Iraqi detainees by US Marines have been widespread, according to US Navy documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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Detaining foreign terrorism suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK&#39;s highest court has ruled. In a blow to the government&#39;s anti-terror measures, the House of Lords law lords ruled by an eight
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.
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Government powers enabling foreigners to be detained without limit under emergency anti-terror laws threaten the values they were designed to protect, the law lords were told today.
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Piracy Deterrence and Education Act would aid prosecution of Internet users who illegally distribute copyrighted works.
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Shiver me timbers! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Pirates, those blights of the high seas, have been ingrained on our consciousness in such broad ways.
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Swedish prosecutors have until Thursday to file charges against The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used search engines for locating music and movies on the Internet.The deadline was set by a Swedish court last year after&#160;The Pirate Bay asked the authorities to return servers seized in a raid, said Peter Sunde, one of The Pirate Bay&#39;s operators, on Monday.Prosecutors may charge up to five people associated with The Pirate Bay with aiding copyright infringement, Sunde said. However, Sunde maintains the Pirate Bay does not violate Swedish law.&quot;There&#39;s nothing that says what we are doing is illegal,&quot; Sunde said.The Pirate Bay is a search engine for torrents, which are small information files that enable content to be downloaded via the BitTorrent protocol.The content isn&#39;t hosted on The Pirate Bay&#39;s servers but instead on users&#39; computers. The torrent, when dropped into a BitTorrent software program, will initiate the download of a file from other computers sharing it on the BitTorrent network.Torrent search engines have come under legal fire before, and the Pirate Bay has since set up servers outside the country to avoid further trouble with Swedish authorities. Sunde said he has received 4,000 pages of material from the prosecutors documenting their investigation.The Pirate Bay has been targeted by music and movie industry associations, which say it enables piracy of content under copyright and should be shut down.BitTorrent itself is now a fledgling company that legally uses p-to-p&#160;(peer-to-peer) technology. In 2005, it reworked its search engine, removing links to torrents that pointed to copyright content.The Pirate Bay generates money from advertising on the site, although Sunde said the revenue only covers hosting and hardware costs. The site recently announced it has reached 10 million users with about 1 million torrents.It&#39;s not the only legal case involving The Pirate Bay. Last September, The Pirate Bay filed a criminal complaint against content companies that hired MediaDefender, a company that specializes in disrupting P-to-P networks in hopes of making file sharing too frustrating.The Pirate Bay alleges that MediaDefender attacked its operations by distributing fake torrent files and other methods.&#160;
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Director Gavin Hood hopes his film  "Rendition" about the U.S. practice of deporting suspected  terrorists to foreign jails will raise public awareness and  help stop abuse of human rights in the name of national  security.
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The case of an Iraqi allegedly killed by UK troops is covered by European human rights law, the UK High Court rules.
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WASHINGTON -- Tell Santa to hurry if you want him to bring CD or DVD burners and jukebox programs. By Christmas, such gifts might be threatened if Congress passes a new law to fight movie and music pirates.
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White House-backed legislation on   the treatment of terrorism suspects may protect them from   torture but gives the United States immunity from legal   challenges, human rights groups say.
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Blackbeard, red faces There's a meeting of the film and music industry's anti-piracy captains in London today.â¦
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No need to change laws Terrorism and organised crime should not be used as excuses for passing laws which undermine people's privacy and data protection rights, according to the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Existing laws do not need changed, he said.â¦
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Publication of Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book is brought forward to see off pirate copies.
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Britain&#39;s Law Lords has ruled that detaining terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial violates their civil rights under the European Convention... Britain&#39;s highest court has ruled in favor of nine