On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Vickram Crishna
<vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org> wrote:
Hi Yann:
Thanks much for this.
It's nice to know that ISPs are the same the world over and do more
than they are asked to do. *sigh*
More to the point, the kind of action initiated by Gallimard, exceeding the
limits of the law and banking on other's ignorance of the law (ie FUD) is
seen very often in India, although not so much by corporate action (but that
is not unknown either).
In India, we are far more likely to see this sort of thing from government
offices, also preying on people's ignorance of the law (including ISPs etc).
The situation is made far more complicated by loose terms employed in the
laws and rules pertaining to those laws, especially regarding
intermediaries.
If put to a vote, I would want Wikipedia (and Wikipedians, of course) to
stand fast against all these kinds of pressures in India, by employing the
kind of firm responses Yann describes. The price of freedom cannot be
freedom itself.
It is sad to hear your government is doing this.
I find that it is useful to use a term like "copyfraud" to describe
incorrect copyright claims by people who should know better. This
term has been translated or adopted into quite a few other languages,
and is gaining in "power".