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...post-Web world. The FLEPia, and its descendents, is another. The march is picking up speed: The iPhone is a terrific example of a post-Web device. Yes, you can use it to browse the Web, but it works so much better via the native iPhone applications that you download...
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...online piracy - one that critics call a Big Brother-like attempt to police people's Web activity. Introduced by Sarkozy's Culture Minister, Christine Albanel, the bill seeks to enlist Internet service providers (ISPs), entertainment-industry organizations and French legal authorities in an effort to identify and dissuade illegal downloading of copyrighted music and video. A monitoring agency would send Web users who illegally download media a cease and desist notice. Should two warnings go unheeded, ISPs would be forced to cut Web access for one to 12 months - and add the user's name to a blacklist of pirates...
...that again. Judicial experts and consumer groups say the bill's proposed policing system will generate many legal challenges - especially regarding invasion-of-privacy issues, and the identification of IP addresses to track people who illegally download. That's especially true in a world where the most prolific pirates - hackers and computer geeks - can hide their identities behind hijacked ones. "The bill violates the principle of presumption of innocence," noted consumer group UFC Que Choisir in a statement, "because the onus would be on the Internet users to prove their good faith...
Swimming Against the Tide: How Developing Countries are Coping with the Global Crisis" The World Bank 21 pages Download...