Colombia - Page loaded 08.01.2009 07:07:16 COT
This week one of the biggest LAN parties in the world arrived to Colombia: Campus Party. Held in Spain since 1997, this year Campus Party left Europe for São Paulo (February) and Bogotá (June), in order to bring technology and innovation not only for the fans but also for the common people.
equinoXio has been invited […]
The Supreme Court of Colombia, the highest criminal judicial tribunal and Cassation Court (deals with the Cassation procedures also known in other juridical traditions as right of appeal on points of law), determined that in order to establish a criminal violation of copyright, it is necessary to find if the criminal conduct is for profit-making, if it causes effective injury and if the intention is to cause harm on the right holder.
Cultural industry prefers to blame on illegal downloads for its crisis, without even considering the impact of the wide possibilities of choice on the internet. Mr Santos, a technology columnist in Colombia’s leading newspaper, endorses that logic, with a “clarification” that is not correct, it is vague and it even seems misplaced.
