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<font face="sans-serif">Dear Fouad<br>
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You raise a very important issue.<br>
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Use of the Internet for enforcing US law on the whole world is a huge
problem, which problem will keep getting aggravated as the Internet
increasingly mediates more and more of our social realities. This
problem requires a well considered global response. Any suggestions
about what it could be?? - which is an open question for all. <br>
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Also to answer one of your specific questions, Fouad, - it is indeed
similar to SOPA in its extra-territorial extension of US law. <br>
<br>
Parminder <br>
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On Friday 06 January 2012 04:42 AM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
I have a question as a result of something I have been noting for some
time now. Sometimes while I search for certain information via
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.google.com.pk">www.google.com.pk</a>, Pakistan's version of Google.com, I get a message
as below:
"In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.
If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the
removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org"
This is Google's DCMA Policy:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1386831">http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1386831</a>
The question is, I am on a ccTLD and regional service of Google.
- Is Google bound to service my region (broker information,
information intermediary, information filtering) without any prior
information?
- Is it bound to enforce DCMA on Pakistan?
- How is this being implemented to a search request from a region by a
US based company's regional country specific service.
- Isn't this similar to SOPA?
- How does Google have the right to filter my results under any
copyright law that is not legislated by my country?
- How does Google have the right to enforce US based copyright laws
without a multilateral treaty or understanding?
- How do I get over this confusion now that I am witnessing it?
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