Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/04/g8-set-create-piracy-laws

> Here's the scary part:
> "The agreement calls for border measures to control international 
> piracy, including the authority for customs authorities to halt 
> suspected intellectual property rights-infringing goods."

> The key word is suspected.  In other words, if they *think* something 
> might be stolen, but they don't have proof, they can stop it and inspect it.

  Countless scifi novels from around the middle of the last century
envisioned worldwide totalitarian governments which would control and
oppress all of its citizens with an iron hand. In these envisioned worlds
things like privacy are more or less criminal.

  Little did these authors know the exact reason why this will indeed
happen. Not because of some dictator raising to power, not because of
megacorporations overthrowing governments (although this one is pretty
close), but because of one little concept commonly called "intellectual
property".

  Money is nothing, wealth is nothing, power is nothing, intellectual
property is everything. Entire world wars have been fought because of
money, wealth or power, but the ultimate demise of the civilized world
will be something rather different: Intellectual property.

  All hail the Holy Copyright!

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                                                          - Warp

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