[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Franck Martin]

Seems that Colbert read Fred's message:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Baker" <fred at cisco.com>
To: President at isoc-au.org.au
Cc: "ISOC Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 17 January, 2012 11:05:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia  going dark tomorrow!


On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Narelle Clark wrote:

> Do you think HADOPI is equally outrageous, eg
> - long jail terms
> - extradition
> - require these entities to take all “technically feasible and reasonable measures” to prevent access

Well, my first concerns with COICA/SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/etc aren't the penalties. If we were talking about murder, for example, long jail terms, extradition, and cooperation among law enforcement and with citizens would make a lot of sense. My question regarding the penalties is whether they are appropriate. But my first question is whether the law is appropriate, in that it reduces the security of the routing system and the applications that use it, and that it violates my understanding of the basic tenets of American (and British, and by extension Australian) law.