Denmark bows to U.S., enacts anti-piracy search and seizure law

[Tim May]

At 2:06 PM -0400 7/20/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/26/042210
>
>     Denmark Enacts Anti-Piracy Search and Seizure Law
>     posted by vergil on Friday July 20, @10:51AM
>     from the battering-ram-of-the-bsa dept.
>
>     If you needed further proof of the U.S. software industry's global
>     muscle, keep reading. The U.S. government, acting on behalf of
>     American firms, has successfully pressured Denmark to change
>     its laws. A document unearthed by Cluebot.com describes how the new
>     law allows physical searches for supposed copyright infringements
>     "without prior notification."

It's surprising to me that there has not been a major test case in 
the U.S. on the growing use of warrantless searches--searches of 
houses by the Child Protection Police, searches of businesses by the 
Microsoft Protection Police, etc. It's as if the Fourth Amendment is 
now "dead letter law" (to coin a phrase).

And while we all know that Europe and Russia are not covered by the 
U.S. Constitution, it is unacceptable that the U.S. sends money and 
experts to Europe, Russia, and other parts of the world to teach them 
to spy on citizens (FBI assistance to Russian security services, for 
example), to kill citizens (CIA manuals), and to throw out any 
semblance of respect for property (copyright raids).

--Tim May




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