- Countries:
- Hong Kong (China)
- Topics:
- Cyber-Activism, Law
A group of netizens have organized a new BBS forum: article23.net. The organizers compared the proposal in the government digital copyright consultation as the notorious article 23 in Basic Law which led to half a milion people demonstration in 2003. The BBS forum is to share information concerning digital copyright issue and possible mobilization against the copyright legislation.
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Pirated software is a big problem over the internet. I wonder how they are going to handle this issue.