[bestbits] South Africa Releases Cybercrimes & Cybersecurity Bill for Comment

[Carolina Rossini]

*South Africa Releases Cybercrimes & Cybersecurity Bill for Comment: Bill
Includes Penalties for Online Infringement*



[Mike Palmedo] The South African government has introduced a draft
Cybercrimes & Cybersecurity Bill for public comment. The Bill states that
anyone who  “sells, offers for download, distributes, or otherwise makes
available” copyrighted works “by means of a computer network or an
electronic communications network” will be guilty of an offense. Penalties
include fines or up to three years imprisonment. Click here for more.
<http://infojustice.org/archives/34925>


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*Public Knowledge*
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