WIPO Wants Your Feedback

Christian Engstrom writes "The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is hosting an online discussion about 'Intellectual Property in the Information Society' from June 1 to 15, 2005. The conclusions of the Online Forum will form part of WIPO's contribution to the WSIS Tunis Summit. There are 10 different themes for discussion, including 'Open Information: At Odds with the IP System?' and 'Enforcement of IP Rights'. If you have any comments about file sharing, copyright enforcement, etc. (and who hasn't?), this may be a good place to post them."

Those in a glass house shouldn't throw stones

[anandpur]

Linux/Apache!!! http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=WIPON ET,193.5.88.0,193.5.95.255 [netcraft.com]

Re:They'd never consider it, but...

[Frogbert]

I'm not so sure about that, yes there will always be people that will never pay for anything but I think the vast majority of consumers would prefer to pay a sufficiently small flat rate for the conveniance of all you can eat music/tv shows/movies. Sure I could go out and download mp3s off gnutella or whatever but it is completely potluck when it comes to quality and what song your actually downloading.

Theme 3 - Hacked

[KaSkA101]

Anyone look at theme three? It appears that it was hacked, as it has a picture from gotse on the top of the page.

Re:I have a feeling

[Anonymous Coward]

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Better.

Posted from within WIPO?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, the hacker is so kewl. Too bad it just gives the WIPO some disgusting proof that their opponents in the IP discussion are a group of childish, immature, punks. Mainstream organizations (like legislatures) will consider this another example of the hollow content and negative orientation of the anti-IP community.

I'm sure that's the way most people will view it. That sort of post only helps those who support stronger copyright laws. Which is why it should come as no surprise, it appears the picture was posted by someone at WIPO. According to the site, the picture was posted by 193.5.93.35. Which is in the same subdomain as www.wipo.int (193.5.93.80).