China Passes Internet Copyright Legislation

Turtlewind writes "According to the Peoples' Daily Online, the Chinese government has passed new legislation regarding copyright on the internet. As well as increasing the penalties for online infringement and forcing ISPs to remove illegal content if given written notice, the law also bans "the production, import and supply of devices capable of evading or breaching technical measures of copyright protection". While everyone wants to see China improving its enforcement of IP rights, is this a step too far?"

Everyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think that's quite true.

There Goes Lenovo

[cyberbian]

The ban includes the production of devices that can be used to circumvent IP protections...

I guess Lenovo is about to file the Chinese equivalent of Chapter 11.

Stupid Human Rights Tricks...

Prohibition has never been the answer, how many times do we need to learn this?

Re:Karl Marx & Frederick Engels

[RsG]

Bah, heathen. Keep insulting my tree gods, and I won't send you any mid-winter feast cards this year :-P

Re:Hypocritical

[Kirth]

Well, its actually not the largest pirate nation, the largest would probably be malaysia. But its true, only too often a freightship attacked and taken over in the malacca strait or south china sea finds its way into chinese ports.

http://www.imo.org/Legal/mainframe.asp?topic_id=33 4 [imo.org]